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Regularisation claim a poll gimmick: BJP

NEW DELHI: The Delhi Government has not been able to regularise even a single unauthorised colony during the past 10 years and its latest announcement to regularise them is only an election stunt, Delhi BJP spokesperson Mewa Ram Arya has said.

Stating that the Congress Government in Delhi now hardly has any time to complete the task of regularisation, he said it was clear to the people that these were mere announcements that are being made in view of the Assembly elections due later in the year.

Mr. Arya said the Congress leaders have not even been able to fix the number of unauthorised colonies. He said while to begin with the Chief Minister had announced that about 1,600 unauthorised colonies would be regularised, the Delhi Revenue Minister had announced that provisional regularisation certificates would be issued to 1,409 colonies. But now the number of unauthorised colonies has been pegged at 1,439, he said.

The BJP leader also said people also want to know the real situation and why even after the issue of guidelines by the National Democratic Alliance Government in February 2004, the Delhi Government did not take any steps during the past four years on the issue. Now, he charged, the amendments have been made in the directions issued by the NDA Government when only a few months are left for the present Delhi Government.

Mr. Arya said it was also wrong of the Congress to claim that regularisation of colonies had taken place in 1976-77 on the basis of the directions issued by the then Indira Gandhi Government. “Not a single colony was regularised in 1976-77. The reality is that the policy decision to regularise the unauthorised colonies which had come up by June 30, 1977, was taken during the Janata Party Government and more than 600 colonies were regularised in two years.”

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