New Delhi:
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA Atishi on Thursday alleged Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of allowing illegal construction in the national capital for fifteen years. She said that the Supreme Court should take stringent action against such curropt activities.
“With their corrupt practices, the BJP for the last 15 years has been doing illegal construction in various parts of Delhi. We hope that the Supreme Court will also take the strictest action against those involved in this illegal construction,” she said.
Atishi claimed that under the rule of BJP over Municipal Corporation of Delhi, illegal construction was undertaken.
“We want to ask the people of Delhi that do you think that BJP is doing hooliganism, violence and riots in the whole of Delhi or in the whole country. Wherever we go, people are demanding relief from this violence and instead want schools and hospitals,” she said.
Atishi informed that AAP will conduct a survey through Interactive Voice Response (IVR), missed calls and posters where they will ask people if the BJP is a party of “goons” and AAP is a party of educated, decent and honest people.
“Only the people of Delhi will tell who is guilty in this case, when we conduct the survey. The people of Delhi will tell who are the goons and rioters,” Atishi said.
Earlier this week, Atishi called BJP responsible for communal violence that broke out on April 16 in Delhi’s Jahangirpuri during a Hanuman Jayanti procession.
As many as nine people were injured in the riots, including eight police personnel and a civilian.
Following the incident, the BJP ruled North MCD had scheduled an “encroachment removal action drive against the illegal construction in the Jahangirpuri area”.
After the demolition drive started on Wednesday, Supreme Court ordered a “status-quo”.
The demolition drive was criticized by Opposition leaders, including Congress leaders Shashi Tharoor and Rahul Gandhi, All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen chief Asaduddin Owaisi, Delhi Environment Minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Gopal Rai, Communist Party of India (Marxist) Politburo member Brinda Karat among others.
(With inputs from ANI)
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