The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) alleged on Friday that the BJP-led Centre wants to demolish all slums in Delhi.
Addressing a press conference, Delhi cabinet ministers Atishi and Saurabh Bharadwaj said slums in the national capital are being demolished “in an inhuman manner” without rehabilitating the affected slum dwellers.
Atishi alleged that at a meeting on January 9, the Centre directed land-owning agencies, such as the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) and the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), to clear all slum clusters in the city.
Atishi said whenever elections are held in Delhi, be it for the Lok Sabha, Assembly or the MCD, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) makes a promise to slum dwellers that it will build houses for them wherever they are residing.
Before every election, the BJP releases advertisements. In this regard, the leaders of the party go to the slums and fill up forms, promising houses for each slum dweller, she added.
The AAP leader said just before the MCD polls, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had distributed some 500 flats to people in Kalkaji and the BJP released a full-page newspaper advertisement saying each slum dweller in Delhi would be given a house within a five-kilometre radius of their current residences.
“Soon after the election, the prime minister handed the keys to the flats in a housing complex to people, while the BJP-governed DDA ordered the demolition of the slums adjacent to that complex,” she alleged