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GPA holders to boycott polls

Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI: Several residents’ welfare associations representing a large number of general power of attorney holders, who have bought houses or flats in co-operative house building society, have decided to stay away from the upcoming Delhi Assembly elections unless political parties give full assurance to provide equal rights to all occupants in managing the residential complexes.

“We have urged our members and their families to stay indoors on election day, wear black badges and fully boycott the elections as part of our struggle to get equal rights in cooperative societies. By boycotting the polls we want to draw the attention towards our equal human rights being violated by the Government in league with corrupt managements of cooperative housing societies in Delhi,” said V. N. Bali, convenor of GPA Holders’ Association. “Lakhs of power of attorney holders living in Delhi’s cooperative societies have no rights and are treated as second class citizens despite the fact that they constitute more than 90 per cent of residents in any cooperative society. During the 2003 elections, the Congress Government mislead us by promising us freedom from the clutches of corrupt managements. Before the elections, the Chief Minister had enacted some laws including Section 94 of DCS Act but till date that has not been implemented,” he added.

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