Delhi Congress chief Ajay Maken led a demonstration outside Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s residence at Civil Lines on Friday in protest against sealing of non-polluting household industries and shops in the city.
Small industrial unit owners, employees and shopkeepers also participated in the protest.
Though the BJP at the Centre and the Aam Aadmi Party government in Delhi indulge in legal battles on small issues, Mr. Maken claimed they have not been able to come up with a permanent solution on the issue despite sealing affecting over 8,75,308 industrial establishments here for the past few months.
“Due to vested interests of leaders from parties in power, household industries which create no pollution have been sealed so that prices of properties acquired by these leaders in official industrial areas go up and they are able to reap heavy profits...,” he alleged.
Mr. Maken said the Monitoring Committee constituted by the Supreme Court in 2006 started the sealing drive but the Congress-led UPA government at the Centre had made 72 amendments to the Master Plan and laws were made in Parliament and notifications issued five times to give relief to small traders and industrial units from sealing.