Chandigarh , February 3: Former Union Minister Harmohan Dhawan crticised the BJP government for merging panchayats in the Municipal Corporation during a meeting of 1,000 booth delegates of 22 villages of Chandigarh. The meeting was organised by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) at Dhawan’s residence on Sunday. Dhawan assured villagers that he would restore panchayats once he came into power.
Participants discussed elections strategy at the micro-level and formed 101 booth committees of the 22 villages in the meeting.
AAP convenor Prem Garg presided over the meeting.
“The Aam Aadmi Party will not let the Administration demolish any house, which is outside Lal Dora,” said Dhawan. Criticising the UT Administration he added, “If houses outside Lal Dora are illegal, then why did the Administration register small plots? and gave their owners water connections, electricity, ration and voting cards?”
He demanded that if the Administration considered constructions outside Lal Dora illegal, then officials, who were responsible for it, must be severely punished, and not the poor and innocent people, who had invested all their earnings to build small houses. Dhawan further assured that agriculture land would be acquired at the market rate.
People who addressed the meeting include Jujhar Singh Badheri, Simernjit Singh Dhaliwal, Didar Singh Badheri, Balwant Singh Saini, Mahinder Singh, Satinder Pal Singh, Girwar, Janki Singh, Avtar Singh, Harbhajan Singh and Gurcharan Singh.
