
NEW DELHI, July 10: After a controversial partial hunger strike that sent Delhi Chief Minister Sahib Singh Verma and his government into a minor tizzy, Bharatiya Janata Party vice-president Krishan Lal Sharma today launched a 21-day tour of Outer Delhi, his constituency, to address the civic problems in the area.
Besides the Chief Minister, Municipal Commissioner V.K. Duggal, Delhi Jal Board chief executive officer Baleshwar Rai, senior officials and engineers of Delhi Vidyut Board and Delhi Police accompanied Sharma during his two-and-half-hour visit to the Tri Nagar Assembly segment of his constituency.
When some of the small-scale industrialists of the area complained to Sharma and the Chief Minister that the authorities were renewing their licences only if a bribe was paid, the MCD Commissioner immediately ordered that the officer concerned be removed from his post today itself.
Janata flat owners of the area, which Sahib Singh had once represented as a councillor, urged that penal interest being charged by the DDA should be removed as they were the worst sufferers of the civic problems in Tri Nagar.
More than 30 complaints were made to the leaders. The residents said the most serious problem facing the public was lack of proper drainage. Water logging, poor lighting and neglect of the park in the area were the other complaints on which decisions were taken on the spot by officials.