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Government not presenting case properly: BJP

Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI: Delhi BJP president Harsh Vardhan has charged that it was due to the connivance with land and builder mafia that the Delhi Government and the Municipal Corporation of Delhi were not properly presenting the case before the High Court for protecting the properties of the people from being demolished.

In a statement on Saturday, Dr. Vardhan said since 80 per cent of the illegal constructions had taken place in the knowledge of the Delhi Government and so it would be wrong to say that only the public was responsible for the same.

Stating that on January 31, the case regarding illegal constructions will be heard by the Delhi High Court, he said, the Delhi Government, MCD and the Union Urban Development Ministry should formulate a joint strategy and request the court to stop the demolition immediately. "The Government should introduce a Bill to implement the Amnesty Plan of V.K. Malhotra Committee," he said, adding that during the BJP rule in MCD the Malhotra Committee had suggested this important plan.

"The BJP had forwarded it to the Congress Government of Delhi for approval in order to implement it, but it was not implemented due to political rivalry," he lamented.

Now, he said, "The Delhi Government and MCD should request the court for giving adequate time to regularise the illegal constructions. In the mean time the Central Urban Development Ministry, by changing the land use in the Master Plan 2021 and by framing new laws for building constructions should save the properties."

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