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V.P. Singh to hold rally against sealing: Bidhuri

Staff Reporter

NEW DEHLI: Former Prime Minister V. P. Singh along with Communist Party of India general secretary A. B. Bardhan will address a public rally here in the Capital on September 10 to protest against the ongoing sealing and demolition drives and the failure of the Delhi Government and the Centre to take steps to resolve the issue that threatens to displace lakhs of families.

Addressing a press conference here, Delhi Pradesh Nationalist Congress Party president Ramvir Singh Bidhuri said the intensified sealing and demolition drive in the city had created panic among the people. He demanded that the July 21 notification of the Union Urban Development Ministry allowing mixed land use policy and amending building by-laws be notified without any further delay and incorporated as an amendment to the Master Plan for Delhi-2001.

He said that apart from Mr. Singh and Mr. Bardhan other leaders who would take part in the rally include Nationalist Congress Party general secretary Tariq Anwar, former Lok Sabha Speaker P.A. Sangma, Jan Morcha president Raj Babbar and the Deputy Speaker of the Delhi Assembly, Shoaib Iqbal who is also the president of the Delhi unit of the Janata Dal.

Mr. Bidhuri said it was unfortunate that while lakhs of people were being uprooted from their decades-old dwellings, the Delhi Government and the Union Government were watching the entire drama unfold like mute spectators. The intensified sealing and demolition exercise had badly affected even schools and it could have an adverse impact on the future of lakhs of children.

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