The Aam Aadmi Party on Saturday marched from its party headquarters to the BJP office against the latter making “false promise of regularising unauthorised colonies in Delhi within six months” and termed the day “Dhoka Diwas”.
Leading the march, AAP Delhi convener Gopal Rai said the government has been trying for many years to regularise the unauthorized colonies in the Capital.
‘Proposal not approved’
“The government had passed a proposal in this regard in the Cabinet and sent it to the Center but the Central government has been sitting on it for many years,” he said.
Leader of Opposition and BJP MLA Vijender Gupta said, “AAP is shedding crocodile tears only to distract the attention of the people of Delhi to hide their failures. Mr. Kejriwal did nothing in these unauthorised colonies during its tenure. In their election manifesto, AAP had promised to build schools and hospitals in all unauthorised colonies but so far, none of them has been built.”
Mr. Rai said despite the Centre not cooperating, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal worked to fix drains, roads, sewers and water pipelines in unauthorised colonies at a cost of ₹5,000 crores.
In July, Union Minister Hardeep Puri had accepted the government’s proposal and promised to regularise these colonies in a month, he said, adding: “There was a wave of happiness all over Delhi. But BJP State chief Manoj Tiwari ji later said that it will take six months to regularise these colonies.”
“I want to ask Mr. Puri and Tiwari ji , why is BJP cheating people of Delhi?” he asked.
AAP chief spokesperson Saurabh Bhardwaj said Mr. Tiwari asking for six months’ time is a trick by the BJP. “There is an election in Delhi after four months and the BJP, like the Congress, will come at that time and say elect us and we will regularise the colonies.”
