The Delhi BJP on Thursday urged President Pranab Mukherjee to order ‘penal action’ against Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit for allegedly misleading residents of unauthorised colonies by granting provisional regularisation certificates (PRC) in 2008.
The BJP’s Chief Ministerial candidate Harsh Vardhan, Delhi BJP president Vijay Goel and leader of Opposition in Delhi Assembly VK Malhotra have written a letter to the President asking him to direct the Prime Minister and the Home Minister to initiate action immediately.
The development comes after former Delhi lokayukta Justice Manmohan Sarin, on his last day in office, recommended that the President should issue an advisory to Dikshit asking her to shun populist measures like issuance of PRC in 2008 on the eve of election.
“We have asked the President that it is a serious issue as the Government or people holding public office should not be allowed to mislead the people with such schemes, which is in violation of 2006 Supreme Court verdict on regularisation of the unauthorised colonies,” Harsh Vardhan said.
He had filed a complaint with the lokayukta in 2010. “If their intention was to regularise the colonies and they had issued provisional certificates, then why have they not regularised them yet. It clearly shows that they had no such intentions,” he said.
With his party trying hard to woo Poorvanchalis, VK Malhotra alleged that the Delhi Government had turned Yamuna into a drain and it will be difficult for people to perform Chhath Puja in its waters. Malhotra also attacked Aam Aadmi Party and its leader Arvind Kejriwal for meeting controversial Muslim cleric Maulana Tauqeer Raza Khan in lucknow.