AAP MLAs protest against MCD against sealing of shops at Delhi Vidhan Sabha in New Delhi on Monday.(Sonu Mehta/HT PHOTO)
AAP’s march, attended by over three hundred traders and party workers, was led by party leader Dilip Pandey.
Before the AAP march, party leader and Delhi convener Gopal Rai alleged that traders were being harassed by the BJP-led corporations in the garb of the sealing drive across Delhi. The drive is being carried out under the supervision of a Supreme Court-appointed monitoring committee against commercial establishments flouting municipal byelaws.
“Traders are already burdened with demonetisation and improper implementation of the Goods and Services Tax (GST). Now, the sealing drive has sent shockwaves among traders. The MCDs are using the exercise to extort money from them,” Rai said.“We know the MCDs have collected crores of Rupees as conversion charges. But we don’t know where that money is being spent,” Pandey said.
The march ended at the Civic Centre where the agitators staged a demonstration against MCD. AAP traders’ wing convener Brajesh Goyal alleged that MCD officials are demanding conversion charges from shop owners who have already paid it.
Officials of three municipal corporations initiated a sealing drive last month, in accordance with the instructions of a Supreme Court-appointed panel that was recently revived by top court.
The monitoring panel — comprising KJ Rao, former advisor to the Election Commission, Bhure Lal, chairman of Environment Pollution Prevention and Control Authority and major general (retd) Som Jhingan — is also empowered to seal commercial establishments that have done illegal construction and where agricultural land has been misused for commercial purposes.
AAP’s march, attended by over three hundred traders and party workers, was led by party leader Dilip Pandey.
Before the AAP march, party leader and Delhi convener Gopal Rai alleged that traders were being harassed by the BJP-led corporations in the garb of the sealing drive across Delhi. The drive is being carried out under the supervision of a Supreme Court-appointed monitoring committee against commercial establishments flouting municipal byelaws.
“Traders are already burdened with demonetisation and improper implementation of the Goods and Services Tax (GST). Now, the sealing drive has sent shockwaves among traders. The MCDs are using the exercise to extort money from them,” Rai said.“We know the MCDs have collected crores of Rupees as conversion charges. But we don’t know where that money is being spent,” Pandey said.
The march ended at the Civic Centre where the agitators staged a demonstration against MCD. AAP traders’ wing convener Brajesh Goyal alleged that MCD officials are demanding conversion charges from shop owners who have already paid it.
Officials of three municipal corporations initiated a sealing drive last month, in accordance with the instructions of a Supreme Court-appointed panel that was recently revived by top court.
The monitoring panel — comprising KJ Rao, former advisor to the Election Commission, Bhure Lal, chairman of Environment Pollution Prevention and Control Authority and major general (retd) Som Jhingan — is also empowered to seal commercial establishments that have done illegal construction and where agricultural land has been misused for commercial purposes.