NEW DELHI: While MCD’s anti-encroachment drive last month received a lot of flak from the AAP government and its MLAs, sources in the LG office claim that removal of squatters at public places was one of the main concerns of 70% of 51 MLAs who met lieutenant governor VK Saxena in separate meetings earlier this month.
Sources claimed that all MLAs asked for the LG’s intervention and “promised full cooperation” in the encroachment removal drive.
The erstwhile east, south and north corporations carried out several anti-encroachment drives in various parts of the city in April and May, which was termed as “bulldozer drive” by the AAP government. The Kejriwal-led government had on May 17 even sought reports from the three corporations of drives carried out since April 1.