Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday wrote to Lieutenant-Governor Anil Baijal seeking a meeting with him on Tuesday, along with all BJP and AAP MLAs, MPs and councillors in the national capital, to find a solution to the ongoing sealing drives.
BJP and AAP leaders
Mr. Kejriwal’s letter came hours after Delhi BJP’s general secretary Ravinder Gupta wrote to him saying that the party’s Delhi unit president Manoj Tiwari, its MPs and MLAs will go to the CM’s residence at 9 a.m. on Tuesday to discuss the ongoing sealing drive.
In his letter to the L-G, the CM wrote: “As the [sealing] matter comes under you, I along with (BJP) MPs and MLAs, also AAP MLAs and councillors will come to you... As they will reach my residence at 9 a.m., I hope that we all will come to your residence at 9.30 a.m.,” he said.
In the letter, Mr. Kejriwal said he hoped that the L-G would find a solution to the ongoing sealing issue.
The ruling AAP and the BJP have levelled allegations against each other over the issue of sealing of shops, being carried out by the BJP led-led civic bodies.
The AAP has demanded that the central government should either bring an ordinance or amend the Delhi Master Plan 2021 to stop the sealing.
The BJP, on the other hand, demanded that the Aam Aadmi Party dispensation should come out with a notification on mix land use to give relief to the city’s traders.
Municipal corporations in Delhi have undertaken the sealing drive, which was initiated by a Supreme Court-appointed Monitoring Committee.
Commercial premises have been sealed across the city for failing to deposit conversion charges according to provisions in Master Plan 2021.
