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BJP march against levy of new charges

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Delhi BJP president Harsh Vardhan leading a protest march in New Delhi on Friday.

NEW DELHI: A large number of Bharatiya Janata Party workers led by its Delhi unit president Harsh Vardhan and Leader of MCD House Subhash Arya took out a protest march from Town Hall here on Friday demanding abolition of the conversion charges and parking fees imposed by the Union Government. The protesters courted arrest at Kamla Market when the police prevented them from proceeding towards the Union Urban Development Ministry’s office at Nirman Bhawan.

Addressing the protesters, who included a large number of Councillors, Dr. Vardhan charged that the recovery of conversion fee and parking charge was being done in an unreasonable manner and people had not been heard or given a chance to lodge a protest against the imposition of new charges. Dr. Vardhan said the conversion charges and parking fees imposed on mixed land and commercial use of residential properties were exorbitantly high and beyond the paying capacity of most professionals who have come under their ambit. “The Congress Government wants that those people who cannot pay the fees should wind up their businesses. If it happens, then there will be complete chaos and the social fabric of Delhi will be destroyed,” he cautioned.

Seeking abolition of the conversion charges and parking fee, Mr. Arya charged that while the Congress had first created an atmosphere of terror through the sealing and demolition drive which had rendered many unemployed, it had now put the residents to great financial distress by imposing the new charges.

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