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Arun Bhatnagar

AAP,BJP trying woo slum dwellers; Watch what slum voters say about their visits?

New Delhi: Ahead of the Delhi Assembly Polls, both AAP and BJP are trying to woo the slum dwellers.

Ex-Deputy CM Manish Sisodia, along with several other senior party leaders, spent a night at Sunder Nursery (JJ Camp) slum settlement in South Delhi on Tuesday.

Sisodia on BJP

Sisodia accused the BJP of demolishing 2 lakh slums in two years.

"They had conducted Yatra in the slums which they demolished two months later. Now, the BJP will send bulldozers tomorrow to demolish the slum areas they recently visited," he accussed BJP. 

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Sundar Nursery Slum

Manish Sisodia alleged that BJP visited Sundar Nursery slum before the elections and later carried out demolition there.  

 

"These people are enemies of slum dwellers. They want all the slums in Delhi to be demolished. Therefore, I want to tell all the slum dwellers of Delhi to be cautious of them and not fall into their trap," he said. Delhi Minister Saurabh Bhardwaj, MLA Dilip Pandey, Praveen Kumar and other senior leaders were accompanied him.

Virendra Sachdeva

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Delhi BJP president Virendra Sachdeva hit back, saying, "For the last five months, our workers have been visiting these slums and spending time with the residents. But in the last 10 years, AAP has done nothing for them.

Talking to Dynamite News, Nursery People told that 'injustice was done to them'. 

"The law of Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board (DUSIB) is that the slums which were built before 2006 are listed by DUSIB. These slums have been settled much before 2006. We have ration card and voter ID card here. They have done injustice to us,” one the persons  of the slum told Dynamite News.


 

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