Cong to burn effigies of BJP, AAP on Dussehra

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, October 14

The Delhi Congress has decided to burn effigies of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders on the eve of Dussehra blaming the two parties for the sealing woes of the trading community in the city.

There would be images of Narendra Modi and Arvind Kejriwal flanked by BJP MPs from Delhi and AAP ministers. A symbolic protest, the move is a part of the Congress’s “Nyay Yudh” campaign against the sealing drive.

The Congress has made arrangements at 14 locations where effigies with the multiple heads of Ravana would be replaced by pictures of BJP and AAP leaders to tell them that they have “miserably failed” to do anything for the city people hit by illegal sealing in many areas, said city’s Congress leader Mukesh Sharma.

The sealing drive is being supervised by a Supreme Court-appointed monitoring committee and under it scores of commercial and residential premises have been sealed by BJP-ruled municipal corporations for violating the Delhi’s master plan since last year.

In view of this, the AAP, the BJP and the Congress have indulged in a blame game with the Delhi’s ruling AAP demanding an ordinance from the Centre to stop sealing while accusing the BJP of massive corruption in the three civic bodies.

Recently, Delhi BJP president Manoj Tiwari was served a contempt notice for breaking the seal of premises in Gokalpuri where he alleged that an “illegal” sealing industry was mushrooming.