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Demand to stop sealing

Staff Reporter

BJP MLAs call on Lieutenant-Governor

NEW DELHI: Bharatiya Janata Party MLAs led by Jagdish Mukhi on Saturday called on the Lieutenant-Governor, B. L. Joshi, and demanded that he issue clear directions to stop the sealing drive in the Capital scheduled to begin from November 1.

A memorandum protesting against the sealing drive in the Capital was also submitted to Mr. Joshi by the BJP delegation.

It said Delhi was burning for the past ten months and property worth thousands of crores had been destroyed in the demolition and sealing drive conducted by the authorities in the city's residential areas.

Expressing concern over the fact that sealing operations would start again from next month, Mr. Mukhi warned that they would go to any extent to protest against the proposed sealing.

The law and order situation was likely to get affected miserably and Delhi could witness a civil disobedience type of movement, he added.

Blaming the Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit for the current situation in the city, Mr. Mukhi said had the Chief Minister not rejected Part II of the Malhotra Committee report, the Capital would not have had to face this state of affairs.

He said as per rules the Government should have developed four per cent of the total land urbanised as commercial land, but as per records the Government had developed only 1.5 per cent of the urbanised land as commercial.

"Hence it is apparent that the Government forced traders to open their shops in the residential areas. Instead of taking action against the officers responsible for this, the Government is harassing the common man," he added.

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