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Congress bid to ‘expose false propaganda’ of BJP

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UP in arms: Lok Sabha MP Sajjan Kumar (left) and Mukesh Sharma MLA, chief convener of the Mahapanchayat, with representatives of unauthorized colonies at a rally in New Delhi on Sunday.

NEW DELHI: Representatives of residents’ welfare association of unauthorised colonies organised a “Mahapanchayat” at Jantar Mantar here on Sunday to “expose the false propaganda” of the Bharatiya Janata Party on unauthorised colonies. The event was organised under the banner of Delhi Pradesh Unauthorised Sammelan.

Addressing the gathering, chairman of the Sammelan Sajjan Kumar said the BJP during the past 15 years had been calling the residents of unauthorised colonies as illegal citizens of Delhi. He said the BJP had through a non-government organisation obtained an injunction order from the court in 1992 against regularisation of these colonies. Chief convenor of the Sammelan Mukesh Sharma said the Congress had always been pleading the cause of unauthorised colonies and it was only because of this that a decision to regularise these colonies had been taken and the residents’ welfare association of these colonies have been issued provisional certificates.

The leaders said the Congress Government with a view to regularise these colonies amended the Master Plan for Delhi-2012 by notifying the change in land use. They stated that during the BJP regime not only were jhuggi-jhonpri dwellers uprooted but lakhs of workers were also rendered unemployed because of the closure of factories. The Mahapanchayat unanimously passed a resolution criticising the BJP for levying a development charge of Rs. 3,200 per sq. yard and thanked the Union and Delhi governments for regularising over 1,400 unauthorised colonies.

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