Excelsior Correspondent
SAMBA, Feb 2: Pointing towards the purported statements of Lt Governor Manoj Sinha that poor and marginalized people shall not be evicted from their land holdings and dwelling units, Harsh Dev Singh, former Minister and senior AAP leader said that the officers were insisting on written orders to spare the needy.
The indigent farmers, labourers and other landless people are being dispossessed of their marginal land holdings despite the assurances of the Lt Governor thereby creating massive public uproar and resultant disenchantment with the present regime,” he said, while addressing a press conference, here today, along with Yashpaul Kundal, Ex-Minister and other senior leaders of the Party, including Raj Kapoor, Dr Mohan Lal and Ved Kumar Sharma.
Harsh Dev Singh also alleged that BJP leaders were left untouched while the Govt had launched a full scale eviction drive against the poor and un-influential. He said that selective action against the poor, indigent and homeless people to the exclusion of the privileged class of saffron brigade was not only reprehensible but amounted to a sin of the highest order. He called upon the Lt Governor to issue a written order to stop demolition proceedings against the poor and other homeless people.
Accusing the LG administration of facilitating the encroachment of palatial mansions besides State lands, Forest lands, JDA and Municipal lands by Ex-Ministers, MLAs and other saffron party leaders while evicting the poor and bulldozing their houses, Harsh Dev said that AAP would vociferously oppose the double standards of the present dispensation. He said that several opposition leaders were reported to have usurped public lands and Govt properties besides having regularized state lands under Roshni scheme and subsequently joined BJP to evade eviction proceedings and were now enjoying immunity from coercive action of the Govt.
Further, he added, several BJP leaders had illegally occupied Govt bungalows without any entitlement but the present Govt rather than evicting them was dismantling the residential units of poor people constructed decades back on the pretext of vacation of state lands.
Describing Govt moves as bizarre acts of highhandedness and political corruption, Singh urged upon the civil society to come forward to expose and oppose the authoritarian and dictatorial policies of the present corrupt regime.
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