With the much-delayed Rani Jhansi Road flyover project being inaugurated on Tuesday, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) raised several questions about the delay and cost escalation in the project executed by the BJP-ruled North Delhi Municipal Corporation.
Speaking at a press conference here, AAP leader Dilip Pandey alleged a scam in the construction of the 1.6-km-long flyover, which was supposed to have been completed in 2010 by the then-unified Municipal Corporation of Delhi. After the MCD was split into three corporations in 2012, the North Corporation inherited the project, which was initially supposed to cost ₹70 crore. Mr. Pandey said that the project’s cost had gone up to around ₹800 crore.
“We want to ask Union Urban Affairs Minister Hardeep Puri when will he get a CBI inquiry done into the scam of crores. It has been found that contractors have been paid even though the work did not happen. The Minister should answer the question, in whose pocket has the money gone,” Mr. Pandey said.
He added that there had been irregularities in some payments for land acquisitions, which also needed to be investigated. Apart from that, he said the BJP should answer whether they would apologise to Delhiites inconvenienced by the delay.