Delhi Congress president Arvinder Singh Lovely said on Sunday that the Arvind Kejriwal government should abolish taxes in rural villages and alleged that the BJP and the AAP have given “step-motherly” treatment to the villagers living in rural areas.
He alleged that both parties “made false promises” during the time of the elections and said the Congress supports the demands of Palam 360 khap. “The Congress supports all their demands. The villages around Delhi are suffering the consequences of the wrong policies of the BJP and AAP governments,” Lovely said.
“When I was the urban development minister in the Sheila Dikshit government, I proposed abolishing taxes in rural areas. House tax should not be imposed in the Lal Dora area of the capital; regularisation of the rural population and giving land ownership rights to the landless are important,” he added. Palam 360 Khap had earlier alleged that despite the contribution of villages across Delhi to the “development of the national capital”, they are now being turned into slum clusters and demanded the government abolish house taxes in rural villages.