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Congress misled residents over house tax: BJP

By Our Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI, JUNE 19. The Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party in the Municipal Corporation of Delhi has alleged that the ruling Congress with an eye on votes has misled Delhiites over capping of house tax.

"Before the elections, people of the Capital were promised that citizens would not have to give more than two-and-a-half times their existing property tax under the new Unit Area System. Now that the elections are over, the Congress-ruled civic body has made a U-turn and ruled that there would be no capping," said the BJP leader, Vijender Kumar Gupta in a statement issued here over the week-end.

Claiming that the Delhi Chief Minister, Sheila Dikshit, had announced a 2.5 per cent capping on house tax, Mr. Gupta said: "This is nothing but deceiving the people of the Capital."

He said the Standing Committee at its meeting on June 1 had also passed such a resolution. Agenda No. 17 of the meeting said: "Keeping in view the assurance given by the Chief Minister in the press that under Unit Area System of Assessment, property tax in residential properties would not be beyond two and half times of the tax under the old system."

Mr. Gupta demanded the resignation of Ms. Dikshit on moral grounds arguing that she had misguided the citizens.

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