While in power, AAP MLAs encouraged encroachment, now indulging in petty politics: Kapoor

Delhi BJP spokesperson Praveen Shankar Kapoor on Sunday accused former AAP MLA Bandana Kumari of encroaching the land near an under-construction government hospital for the poor and a functioning hospital in Shalimar Bagh along a 30-meter road proposed in the Delhi Master Plan for access to these hospitals.

According to Kapoor, the AAP leader not only encroached a part of the road but has also encouraged others to do the same. He said due to the illegal encroachment on the road, the area faces constant traffic jams, making it impossible for ambulances to pass and coming in the way of the Shalimar Bagh constituency’s connectivity to the highway.
When the Delhi government tried to remove some of these encroachments to open the road for both the functioning and the under-construction government hospitals, Kumari is portraying it as demolition of homes and the poor to save her own encroachment.

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In this context, Kapoor condemned AAP leader Saurabh Bhardwaj statements in this regard describing them as borne out from petty politics. He said the problem with him is that during ten years in office, AAP MLAs facilitated illegal encroachments across Delhi. Now that efforts are being made to remove these encroachments, they are pressuring Bharadwaj to frame the issue as one of public interest.
The spokesperson advised Bhardwaj to wait for the court’s decision instead of making irresponsible statements as the removal of the encroachments in Shalimar Bagh is now under judicial scrutiny.