A high-level delegation of Delhi Congress led by its president Ajay Maken met Lieutenant-Governor Anil Baijal seeking his intervention to end sealing of non-polluting household industries in the city.
Maken also demanded the L-G to immediately issue a notification to change the definition of household industries from 5kv to 11kv power and from 5 workers to 11 workers.
“People are angry with the sealing action and forced collection of conversion charge by municipal corporations and if it is not stopped, over 50 lakh people will come out on the streets and the condition in Delhi will get vitiated,” he said.
In the meeting with Baijal, Maken said the civic bodies come directly under the
The L-G and the Union Home Minister, and demanded that orders be issued to the three municipal corporations of Delhi to stop collecting conversion charges.
The delegation also included AICC incharge of Delhi affairs PC Chacko, former ministers Arvinder Singh Lovely, Haroon Yusuf, and convenor of 'Nyay Yudh' campaign Mukesh Sharma.
Party president also addressed many meetings across the city to garner support of the public. Hitting out at the BJP and the Aam Aadmi Party, Maken said that both these parties were in collusion in the illegal sealing of non-polluting household industries in the Capital.
The Congress is running 'Nyay Yudh' campaign against “illegal” sealing of non-polluting household industries in the city. A large number of protesters including labourers and household industry owners will attend the 'Nyay Yudh' rally at Karol Bagh Friday (September 14), Sharma said.
More than 40 big and small traders' and shopkeepers' associations have pledged their support to Delhi Congress' 'Vyapar Bachao-Mazdoor Bachao' rally at Karol Bagh, he said.