Delhi BJP president Manoj Tiwari on Wednesday said that the party will ensure the regularisation of all unauthorised colonies in the city that number around 1,797, within six months.
The BJP’s central leadership, the North East Delhi MP said, had directed elected leaders from its Delhi unit to conduct public events to take feedback from the residents of such colonies in the city. Mr. Tiwari said efforts were also being made to ensure in-situ rehabilitation of residents of jhuggi jhopri clusters in Delhi.
“All the unauthorised colonies will be regularised in six months from now. The Delhi BJP leaders — be it MPs, MLAs or councillors — will on September 22 visit unauthorised colonies across 22 Assembly segments to get feedback from people and expose the Arvind Kejriwal-led Delhi government which has failed to regularise these settlements despite being in power for five years,” Mr. Tiwari said while addressing the media here.
The issue of regularisation of unauthorised colonies has been a major poll plank in Delhi for decades. During the recent Lok Sabha election, the Chief Minister had alleged that the Modi government had “planned to demolish” these.
Mr. Tiwari argued that had the Delhi government been committed to the issue, such colonies would have been regularised already and ownership rights would have been bestowed upon their residents.
“More than two months have passed since Arvind Kejriwal announced that registration of properties in unauthorised colonies would begin soon. He should explain what has been done in these two months,” he said.
In July, Mr. Kejriwal had said residents of unauthorised colonies in the national capital would soon have ownership rights of their properties. The Chief Minister had further claimed that the Centre was “positive” on his government’s proposal for the regularisation of unauthorised colonies and promised that dreams of lakhs of people to have ownership rights of their properties in these colonies would be realised soon.
“Delhi BJP leaders will visit all the unauthorised colonies over successive weekends in the next few months. Let me also take this opportunity to say that the BJP will announce some good news regarding JJ clusters soon,” Mr. Tiwari also said.
Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan had last week slammed the Delhi government over the issue of unauthorised colonies, alleging that it did nothing for their regularisation and also delayed the process seeking “extensions after extensions” during its five-year tenure.
