Says it will hold protests if all 1,639 illegal colonies are not regularised With Delhi Assembly elections approaching,political parties have stepped up efforts to woo the voters using the issue of regularisation of illegal colonies. The Delhi unit of the BJP on Saturday said it would approach the Union Urban Development Minister demanding the regularisation of all 1,639 colonies in the city. The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP),went a step further and thanked the Delhi Chief Minister for notifying 916 colonies as regularised. Addressing a press conference here,Delhi BJP chief Vijender Gupta and leader of Delhi Legislative Assembly V K Malhotra said residents should not be burdened with development charges and all the colonies should be regularised immediately. They said a delegation of senior leaders will meet UD Minister to ask for regularisation of all unauthorised colonies. Effectively,only those colonies,which are on private land,have been regularised. But 583 colonies,which are on government land,will will have to wait a while longer. These colonies cannot be regularised until every household pays the cost of the land to the land owing agency. Delhi government has deceived the people, Gupta said. If the unauthorised colonies are not regularised immediately,then the party will launch protests across Delhi, he said. Malhotra said the Congress Party had promised regularisation of 1,639 unauthorised colonies before the polls and then it came down to 1,300 colonies. Now,it has come down to 312 colonies and even the fate of these colonies hangs in balance,he said.
