Senior Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader and MCD in-charge Durgesh Pathak accused the BJP-ruled municipal corporations of functioning like a nexus of mafias which illegally takes over public assets and hands them over to its own people.
Pathak said that the BJP Councillor Manju Khandelwal has crossed all heights of corruption by claiming that she has done nothing wrong by handing over MCD-owned land to her own husband. “The sitting BJP Councillor handing over prime land worth 50-60 crores to her own husband is no joke. This is a clear example of BJP’s corrupt mindset,” he said.
The AAP leader further said that there are many such properties, which the BJP has proposed to sell to private players and their own friends and family over the past 4-5 months. “These properties include – Gandhi Maidan Parking area, Qutub Road Parking, Novelty Cinema, Naniwala Bagh, Moti Nagar Shopping Complex, 132 plots in Sanjay Gandhi Transport Nagar, schools in Shalimar Bagh and Karol Bagh, town hall buildings, hospital buildings and parkings – some 50 to 100 such elite and expensive properties, with market values in crores, are being sold off at throwaway prices by the BJP,” he added.
However, terming the charges baseless, Delhi BJP Spokesperson Praveen Shankar Kapoor said that the AAP leaders are spreading lies against BJP leaders and concillors with an aim to get benefit in the upcoming election.
Accusing the BJP Councilor of selling a Dhalao complex in her area to her husband which is a total lie as the Dhalao is alloted for a period of five years to a social organisation of eminent citizens of Ashok Vihar including her husband after fulfilling all rules and regulations.
As per a policy adopted after consent of AAP Councilors in the House of North DMC, it was decided that all closed Dhalao complexes can be alloted to nonprofit making social organisations on the recommendation of area Councillor for a period of five years, he said, adding that following the policy all AAP and Congress Counselors also have allotted Dhalao complexes to social organizations.