The Aam Aadmi Party has strongly objected to the demolition of slums in Delhi by the agencies of the BJP’s central government. Senior AAP leader and MLA Durgesh Pathak said that all 7 MPs in Delhi since 2014 are from the BJP. They have not done any work in these 11 years and now these people are engaged in destroying Delhi by demolishing it.
The BJP’s central government agency, Indian Railways, has put up a notice to demolish thousands of slums in Patel Nagar and Brar Square, but the BJP MP there, Bansuri Swaraj, is not even taking the calls of the affected people. A few days ago, the DDA demolished several slums in the Chandni Chowk area, but there is no trace of the local MP Praveen Khandelwal. The silence of the BJP MPs in both these cases shows that they support these demolition actions. He said on one hand, the BJP and its MPs want to demolish slums of Delhi and make people homeless, on the other hand Aam Aadmi Party is giving legal help to the people.
Senior leader and MLA of Aam Aadmi Party Durgesh Pathak said in a press conference at the party headquarters on Wednesday that the people of Delhi have voted for all the 7 BJP MPs by giving them a huge majority in the last 11 years. But even after so many years, they have no work to show for themselves. There is also a report that these MPs have not even spent their MP local area development fund. All the 7 BJP MPs have been getting elected in Delhi continuously since 2014. But they do not do even a little work and neither do they meet anyone. As soon as they win the election, they start roaming around like kings or give absurd bytes on TV, but do not do any work on the ground. Not a single citizen of Delhi can tell what work the BJP MPs have done in all these years.
Durgesh Pathak stated, “Not working for the public has always been a habit of the BJP, but now their MPs have started ruining Delhi on a large scale. Two big incidents have happened in Delhi in the last one week. The first incident was done by the BJP government at the Centre and their MPs. DDA, which comes under the central government, has done a large-scale demolition in Chandni Chowk. People were living in that area for 70-80 years.”
He continued, “It seems that this was done at the behest of the BJP MPs because in the last 5 days, Chandni Chowk MP Praveen Khandelwal has not gone there even once. People tried to call him repeatedly, but his staff is saying that he has gone out. These MPs have not done any work for 11 years and are now engaged in ruining Delhi. Meanwhile, there is no trace of BJP MP Praveen Khandelwal, he is not talking to anyone. DDA comes under the central government, all this is not possible without their instructions.”
Durgesh Pathak mentioned another big incident and said that the Indian Railways under the Central Government has put up notices for demolition of thousands of huts for several kilometres in Patel Nagar and Brar Square. It is written in the notice that the work of demolition of these huts will start from July 22. It has been 5 to 6 days since these notices were put up. These areas come under the Lok Sabha constituency of Bansuri Swaraj; she is the MP from New Delhi seat here. But she did not visit these areas even once, did not listen to the problems of the people. She did not even once talk to the railway and other departments so that these huts could be saved from demolition, he added.
“This makes it completely clear that these things are happening with her knowledge and despite knowing everything, she is not taking any action. Whereas if she makes a call to the railway department, people’s houses can be saved from demolition. But in the last 5 days, she did not even once go there and try to meet the people. People tried to call her many times, but her phone is never reachable,” said the AAP MLA.
Durgesh Pathak said that for 11 years, all the 7 BJP MPs have been ruling Delhi. Various departments such as DDA and Railways come under them. Earlier, these people did not do any work, but now it seems as if they have instructed the departments to ruin Delhi completely. This includes areas like Loha Mandi, Budh Nagar and Inderpuri from Patel Nagar to Brar Square. These notices have been pasted here by the Indian Railways. It has been 5 to 6 days but till now no MP has gone to inquire about anyone.
“At the same time, the Aam Aadmi Party is giving legal help to the people there in both these cases. For the last 11 years, the BJP has only worked to ruin Delhi. When they wake up in a month or two, they visit some area and take pictures of the place and post them on social media. Apart from this, they have no other work,” he stated.
“The BJP MPs should stop working against the people of Delhi. You (BJP MPs) are snatching their houses from people, stop this. Railways and DDA come under Bansuri Swaraj and Praveen Khandelwal. Both of them head these departments because both these departments are under the central government but still, they are not taking any action. Their silence should be considered as if they are giving orders to these departments from behind the scenes to demolish people’s houses. The people of Delhi have made you win but if this continues, then it is a matter of a few days that you will fall out of their sight,” he concluded.