BJP-ruled MCD conniving with builder mafia to report markets as dangerous and reconstruct them: AAP leader Saurabh Bhardwaj

AAP Chief Spokesperson said that there is a market on the Saraswati Marg constructed by the Municipal Corporation wherein allotment was done in 1976 and shopkeepers were given shops on a lease of 99 years, but, now in 2021, the MCD has gotten this market investigated by IIT Roorkee.

NEW DELHI: Aam Aadmi Party’s Chief Spokesperson Saurabh Bhardwaj held a crucial press conference on Friday to inform the media that the BJP-ruled MCD will be demolishing the MCD Market in the famous Gaffar Market area to reconstruct the complex and then sell the shops in a fresh manner while evicting the existing shopkeepers. The BJP-ruled MCD wants to evict shopkeepers who were given a lease of 99 years in 1976 and reconstruct it with a new builder who will sell these shops to new people instead. While addressing the press conference he further said that the MCD did not carry out maintenance for 40 years and has now served an eviction notice to empty the market within 3 days. He questioned that if the shops were made using poor grade cement, is it the fault of the shopkeepers or the MCD who constructed this rubbish building? He told the gathering that the BJP-ruled MCD was conniving with builder mafia and has similar plans for all such 39 markets in Delhi so that it can fill its pockets with crores of rupees before leaving the MCD. AAP Chief Spokesperson and MLA Saurabh Bhardwaj said, “This incident is related to the North MCD. You must be aware that the MCD and DDA construct market complexes at various places and the shops in these markets are given on lease for 99 years. Ideally, these leases are converted into freehold deeds. However, the MCD in connivance with big builder mafias is coming up with a new technique. The markets in which shops should have been on freehold, where shops were given on a lease for 99 years, surveys are now being conducted to find out fallacies and evict people from those buildings. They are proving these buildings to be dangerous and forcing the shopkeepers to empty the markets. After the shops are emptied, the shopkeepers have been told that they will not get these shops back again. Moreover, they are saying that they are starting afresh and a new builder will be coming in who will sell these shops to new people as per convenience.” He said, “There is a market on the Saraswati Marg constructed by the Municipal Corporation wherein allotment was done in 1976 and shopkeepers were given shops on a lease of 99 years. Now in 2021, the MCD has gotten this market investigated by IIT Roorkee. And IIT Roorkee has stated that because of using bad quality cement, the condition of this building is not good. There are many other faults in this building because of which the MCD will now demolish it and construct it again.”