NEW DELHI: A day after he wrote to
LG
Anil Baijal alleging that
mosques
had mushroomed on
encroached land
in different parts of the city,
West Delhi BJP MP
Parvesh Sahib Singh Verma on Wednesday accused
AAP
and
Congress of allowing mosques and
graveyards
to come up on
government
land before the upcoming
assembly elections
.
Verma’s remarks accusing AAP and Congress of indulging in vote-bank politics have sparked a controversy with both the opposition parties countering his claims. Congress has accused BJP of “communalising” the issue for political gains ahead of the assembly polls.
Deputy CM Manish Sisodia said that land and law & order come under the BJP-ruled central government. “They (BJP) use people as a vote-bank and then don’t speak to them for five years. People can also see the situation of law and order in the city,” he added.
Delhi Congress working president Haroon Yusuf stated that BJP was busy in its communal agenda and had failed to raise the problems of water scarcity, power outages and unemployment being faced by people. “People voted for them not to indulge in such issues, but to serve people,” he said, adding that Singh was ignorant about the existence of a religious structures committee headed by the LG to take up complaints of encroachments.
AAP spokesperson Saurabh Bharadwaj said, “The AAP government has neither constructed nor facilitated the construction of any place of worship, be it a temple, mosque, gurdwara or church. We have instead built schools, hospitals and colleges, the temples of modern India.”
Singh said he possesses evidence of encroachments and claimed that over 100 mosques exist on government land or roadsides in the city.