Thursday, 24 October 2014 | PNS | DEHRADUN
Uttarakhand Congress will take out a statewide Yatra on the demand of ownership rights to the slum dwellers. Addressing a meeting at Kanwali area of the city, the vice -president of Uttarakhand Congress, Suryakant Dhasmana said that the State government is trying to play the politics by bringing an ordinance for the slum dwellers for three years for the third consecutive time. He said that instead of bringing ordinances the State government should regularize the slums in the State. Dhasmana announced that the Congress party under the banner of Uttarakhand Malin Basti Vikas Parishad is prepared to wage an all out war on the issue.
He said that immediately after the Deepawali the party will take out a Yatra in Dehradun and other districts for giving ownership rights to slum dwellers. Dhasmana said that the Congress government in 2016 conducted an extensive survey of the slums in the State and prepared regulations to start the process of their regularization. However the issue was put in cold storage by the BJP government in the year 2017. The Congress leader claimed that a conspiracy was hatched to demolish the slums on the pretext of a High Court (HC) order on a PIL. He said that fearing defeat in the local bodies’ elections and vehement protest by the Congress the BJP government brought an ordinance in haste to neutralize the HC order. At the end three years the government promulgated another ordinance in the year 2021.
Dhasmana said that the government has now again brought an ordinance for three more years but it has no plan to regularize the slums. He added that the government only wants to use pressure politics to seek the votes of slum dwellers and for this it is using ordinance as a tool.
