The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Monday said it would hold a massive protest from “sadak to sansad” if the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) does not bring a Bill to regularise unauthorised colonies in the Winter Session of Parliament.
AAP spokesperson and leader Raghav Chadha said that in the current session of Parliament, AAP legislators will try to establish a consensus among other legislators and gather support over regularisation of these colonies.
Chadha said that before every parliament session, the Speaker of the Lok Sabha calls an all-party meeting where Prime Minister of the country along with the Home Minister, Parliamentary Affairs Minister and the representatives of all the political parties come together and discuss the new upcoming bills. “The Central government discussed 27 new bills which will be introduced in this session but the bill to regularise the unauthorised colonies of Delhi is not present in the list.
He said that just after the end of Maharashtra and Haryana polls, the BJP started talking about regularisation of unauthorised colonies. “We want to tell them that the Arvind Kejriwal government of Delhi on November 2015 completed the plan of regularizing the unauthorised colonies of Delhi and sent the proposal to the Centre but they sat on the files for more than four years and now just before the election they have approved the plan of AAP-Government,” he said.
“The party now want them to bring an ordinance on
the issue of regularisation of unauthorised colonies but they did not. This shows the
negative mindset of the BJP and it exposes the fact that
the BJP does not want to regularise the unauthorised colonies,” he said.
AAP leader Sanjay Singh also slammed the BJP for not listing the bill for regularisation of unauthorised colonies. “Aam Aadmi Party will raise the issue to pass the bill in this session itself and urge BJP to stop this publicity politics,” he said.
Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Hardeep Singh Puri has said the Centre will also bring a bill in the Winter Session to give relief to the residents of unauthorised colonies in the national capital.
The move has come ahead of assembly polls in Delhi to be held early next year. The decision is applicable to 1,797 identified unauthorised colonies spread over 175 square km inhabited by people from lower-income groups, Puri said last month.
The Parliament’s Winter Session began on Monday and several bills, including the Citizenship Amendment Bill, are scheduled to be tabled during the session that will end on December 13.