The AAP on Friday organised massive protests at the slums near the Yamuna bank in East Delhi opposing the demolition of slums in the vicinity of the Akshardham temple here.
After a team of Delhi Municipal Corporation officials (East), reached the vicinity of the Akshardham temple, AAP members led by Manish Sisodia stopped them and said slum-dwellers could not be displaced in the biting cold weather that Delhi faced. Sisodia, who was elected from Patparganj constituency, said that slum-dwellers resided
in the slums for over three decades, held voter IDs and paid taxes. The newly-elected MLA remarked that the order for the demolition was issued four months back and asked why it was being done now. Even though the municipal corporation is ruled by the BJP, Sisodia said that he believed the Congress was involved in the conspiracy to demolish the slums as they did not get any votes here.
Delhi BJP chief Vijay Goel on Friday questioned the Centre’s motive behind
granting more time to the AAP to form a government in Delhi and said it seemed as if both the parties were not able to finalise a “deal”.
Attacking the AAP on its decision to approach the people on whether to form a government with the Congress support, he said though the issue was between the two parties, the BJP was concerned that there would be an “unholy alliance” between them. “The statement by the Home Minister (Sushilkumar Shinde) that the Centre would give more time to the AAP for the formation of
a government in Delhi has led to suspicion whether both the parties are in for any kind of unholy alliance,” Goel told reporters.