The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) took out a ‘padyatra (foot march)’ in all 272 wards of Delhi against the alleged sale of land worth Rs 200 crore for just Rs 34 crore by the BJP-ruled municipal corporation.
Leader of Opposition of North Municipal Corporation (NMC) Vikas Goyal said that BJP leaders sold the land at throwaway prices.
He demanded that the BJP-ruled MCD withdraw the decision to sell Novelty Cinema and said that the party will continue to protest and make the people of Delhi aware of this graft till the demand is fulfilled.
“The North Municipal Corporation sold the land of Novelty Cinema worth Rs 200 crore to their loved ones for just Rs 34 crore.
This is the same BJP that does not have money to pay salaries to their employees. They do not have money to take up new projects but still they are stealing money from the people,” he said.
Goyal further said that the BJP has been ruling the Municipal Corporation for the last 15 years but has not fulfilled a single promise made to the citizens of Delhi, be it cleanliness and maintaining hygiene in the city or anything else.
However, the BJP-led NMC has rejected as “baseless” allegations of corruption levelled by the AAP which had claimed that the land of Novelty Cinema in the Walled City area was sold at a rate much below its actual worth in the market.