The Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) chief spokesperson Saurabh Bhardwaj accused the BJP-ruled North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NMC) of preparing to sell the 1,100 square metre Dangal Maidan situated behind Delite Cinema at throwaway prices.
The AAP leader also alleged that the builders want to buy the land on freehold instead of leasehold because they know that the AAP will investigate the deal after coming to power and cancel it.
In the standing committee meeting held on Tuesday, the proposal was tabled, Bhardwaj said. “The BJP is convinced that they are going to lose badly in the next MCD elections, which has caused the BJP leaders to go on a spree of selling off the MCD’s assets,” he said.
Refuting the charges, Delhi BJP spokesperson Praveen Shankar Kapoor said that the people of Delhi have stopped taking AAP leaders seriously as they keep levelling one allegation after another.
“The politics of the AAP is based on leveling serious allegations to get cheap publicity. The NMC has no proposal to sell any of its hospitals and dispensaries and any other properties,” he said.
Bhardwaj had on Friday alleged that the North Corporation had sold this "massive high-profile 1,100 sqm plot of Novelty Cinema in the commercial area for just Rs 34 crore, while its market value should have been between Rs 125 and Rs 150 crore.”
The AAP leader had also alleged that the BJP-ruled NMC was fully prepared to sell 10 hospitals and one medical college to the Centre.
The proposal was put on hold after the AAP built up pressure, he said.
However, officials at the NMC said that the proposal to hand over six hospitals run by the Corporation to the Centre was on Wednesday "referred back" to the executive wing of the civic body by its standing committee.