Haryana minister Anil Vij’s Vikas Parishad to be deregistered

AMBALA: Haryana cabinet minister Anil Vij has asked the Ambala deputy commissioner-cum-district election officer to review the registration of his now defunct political outfit Vikas Parishad, after which the Election Commission of India (EC) will deregister his party.
According to information, Vikas Parishad, floated by Vij as an independent politician, with his Shastri Colony, Ambala Cantonment residence as the address, is registered as an unrecognised political party with the EC for nearly 13 years now.
Ambala City-based advocate Hemant Kumar of the Punjab and Haryana high court, who had sought the status of Vikas Parishad through an RTI application about one-and-half years ago, said, “On Friday, I received some documents from the office of Haryana chief electoral officer (CEO) in reply to my RTI application. The documents also contain a copy of a letter sent by Vij to Ambala DC on August 5, 2020. Vij has written that in the year 2009, he dissolved Vikas Parishad and joined Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and currently, Vikas Parishad does not exist.”
He said the Ambala DC intimated the Haryana CEO about this on August 6, and now this information would be forwarded to the EC for the deregistration of Vij’s party.