Delhi Assembly on Tuesday decided to hand over the matter related to sealing of properties in the Capital to a special committee for investigation.

Speaker Ram Niwas Goel said that after taking into consideration the sentiments expressed by members in the House, he was “referring the matter of collection and utilisation of conversion charges and all other related issues for examination and report by the special committee on MCDs.”

Goel stated, “I direct the commissioners and all other officers of MCDs to depose before the committee as and when desired by the committee and state the truth.

The nine-member committee, which will be headed by Bhavna Gaur, was asked to submit its report on the opening day of the next Assembly session.

The sealing drive has been discussed in the Assembly for the past two days with Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislators playing blame game.

The leader of opposition Vijender Gupta accused the AAP government for playing politics over the issue.

Gupta said that the sealing drive is carried as per Supreme Court-appointed monitoring committee and no AAP legislators spoke about it. “It is evident that they (AAP) don’t want to debate on the real facts but are playing politics over the entire matter,” Gupta quipped.

Labeling AAP government as ” Jhoot bolo rule karo” (speak lies and rule), Gupta claimed that AAP made the sealing drive a ” shuttlecock” issue by putting blame on municipal corporations.

Gupta also raked up the issue of 351 roads which were yet to be notified under commercial and mixed-use category.

Displaying various letter written by municipal corporation to the AAP government in the past two years or so to notify 351 roads, Gupta said that the government had not taken any action in that regard.

Hitting back at the BJP, Urban Development Minister Satyendar Jain said that all letters displayed by Gupta were written only after the state government put the process of notifying 351 roads under commercial and mixed-use category into motion.

“I know which all letters you are referring to. These letters were written only after government’s continuous reminders to the municipal commissioners to expedite the process of notifying these 351 roads,” Jain remarked.

Jain claimed that he had asked all the three municipal commissioners to submit their reports by 22 January on the status of notifying those 351 roads.

Delhi Labour Minister Gopal Rai also cornered the BJP saying that sealing drive that was taking place had already been notified and the BJP was only minting money in the name of conversion charges.