The AAP and the BJP are loggerheads over the de-sealing of shops in the national capital. The AAP has accused the Commissioner, Municipal Corporation of Delhi of not de-sealing the shops at the behest of the BJP-led Central Government despite the order of the Supreme Court’s judicial committee. On the other hand, Delhi BJP has said that the AAP leaders should stop fooling the local shop centre (LSC) traders who have been fighting all ends to get their shops desealed.
Delhi BJP President Virendra Sachdeva has said that right from beginning since the day the Judicial Committee recommended desealing of LSC shops that Mayor should allow shopkeepers to deseal by themselves but actually the AAP wanted to extort election fund from LSC traders and so the Mayor Shelly Oberoi instigated Commissioner to move Court but when BJP raised the issue by getting token desealing of Shops done at Hauz Khas then AAP leaders started speaking against the Commissioner as facing saving act.
On the other hand, the AAP leaders alleged that a large number of shops in Delhi have remained sealed since 2017, and asserted that the MCD commissioner, acting under the influence of the BJP-led Central Government, is adamantly refusing to de-seal the shops despite the judicial committee’s orders and a resolution passed in the MCD House. On the other hand,
Senior AAP leaders and Delhi government Cabinet Ministers Saurabh Bharadwaj and Atishi held a joint press conference at the party headquarters on Friday held the Centre responsible for not desealing the shops in Delhi despite the supreme court orders.
Bharadwaj stated that on December 18, 2023, the judicial committee of the Supreme Court declared sealing unlawful and ordered that conversion charges cannot be levied on shops built on commercial land. The AAP government of the MCD passed a resolution in the House to de-seal the shops; however, the MCD commissioner is refusing to comply with the orders. He said that the MCD had sealed the shops based on the recommendation of the Supreme Court's monitoring committee and is now not de-sealing even on the orders of the Supreme Court's judicial committee.
