New Delhi:
As the political row over the demolition in Jahangirpuri continues, the AAP on Friday accused Delhi BJP councilors of demanding bribes from city residents after their party leader Adesh Gupta asked the mayors of the civil authorities in the south and east to to remove illegal infringements by using bulldozers.
Senior AAP leader and deputy chief minister of Delhi, Manish Sisodia, called the development “the truth of the BJP’s bulldozer policy” and called on his party’s MLAs to stand steadfastly behind those “harassed, blackmailed and threatened.” ” by the councilors of the saffron party .
“Many such complaints come from all over Delhi. The people of Delhi do not tolerate this kind of blatant extortion and hooliganism,” Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal said in a tweet.
“Is that why the MCD elections have been postponed?” he asked.
Sisodia appealed to his party MLAs to oppose the BJP’s “extortion drive”.
“I appeal to all AAP MLAs to oppose this extortion by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Tell people around you that the Delhi government and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) are behind the people,” he said. said in a letter to his party lawmakers.
“If such a case comes to the attention of an MLA, help the people, immediately catch the blackmailers of the BJP and hand them over to the police. Also bring such cases to the attention of the government immediately,” he added .
In a statement, the minister also claimed that the “real reason behind the BJP’s bulldozer policy is their greed for money”.
After several concrete and temporary structures near a mosque were demolished in violent Jahangirpuri in northwestern Delhi on Wednesday as part of the northern company’s “anti-encroachment campaign”, Delhi BJP chief Gupta had written to business mayors in the south and east, with the demand also to lift illegal infringements in their area with the help of bulldozers.
In separate letters to the two mayors, he also claimed that “anti-social” elements had invaded the government’s country at various locations in southern and eastern civil society areas “because they are protected by local MLAs and AAP leaders.”
Chaotic scenes had occurred in Jahangirpuri on Wednesday as roadside stalls and shops allegedly built on public land were demolished by the North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC) in the presence of huge contingents of police and paramilitaries, sparking accusations between political parties in front of the highest court pressed the pause button.
The ruling AAP in Delhi claimed that Gupta’s letter to the mayors was “a well-planned plan to extort as much money as possible from the residents of Delhi before the term of the three municipal corporations”.
“There is no mention of Rohingyas and Bangladeshis in his letter as he talks about them. It is a well-planned plan by the BJP,” AAP spokesman Saurabh Bharadwaj told reporters.
AAP’s Kalkaji MLA Atishi claimed that while BJP leaders allowed “all illegal structures and breaches” to emerge in Delhi after taking bribes from people, while the saffron party ruled all three civilian bodies for the past 15 years, they are now contacting with the people again by threatening that the illegal structures will be demolished if they don’t give money.
“They are doing this to fill their pockets as much as possible because this is their last chance. The term of the elected governing bodies will expire on May 18,” she added.
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