The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) said it would launch satyagrah on July 31 in support of the victims of the ongoing demolition drive here today. Members of the party said they would continue the strike till the victims were rehabilitated and allotted two biswas of land in the town.
Party's national executive member and coordinator of the Mandi district Des Raj Sharma said the AAP would launch ‘satyagrah’ as a sign of protest against the Congress and BJP that had failed to provide shelter to the poor people.
In a press statement here today, Sharma said the residents who had built houses in the town should be provided water and electricity. The government must bring in one-time settlement policy to regularise houses in the towns. The retention polices benefited the big builders while the common man was bearing the brunt of the Town and Country Planning Act (TCP), he claimed.
The AAP would launch satyagrah in support of the one-time retention policy so that the common man gets justice. “The TCP Act should be amended to suit the needs of hill areas and the common man,” he demanded.
He said lakhs of bighas of land was made available to private universities and several projects from outside, but the public had to face the bulldozers.
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