Demand to regularize slums and give them ownership rights – ..

Dehradun, 24 October (HIST). State Vice President of Congress Suryakant Dhasmana said on Wednesday that by bringing an ordinance for the third consecutive time to regularize more than five hundred slums spread across the state and give them ownership rights, the government is only bargaining for votes by imposing a favor on the people of slums. Is. Congress does not accept this. Congress is now ready to fight the battle of ownership rights with the government under the banner of Uttarakhand Slum Development Council Congress.

Addressing a huge protest organized in front of the statue of Ambedkar in Shastri Nagar Khale of Kanwali, Suryakant Dhasmana said that immediately after Diwali, he will start the Ownership Rights Nyaya Yatra in the slums of every district of the state including the capital Dehradun.

He said that in the year 2016, the then Congress government of the state, after a thorough survey and study of the slums, had started the process of regularizing the slums of the state and giving ownership rights to their people by making proper rules and getting them passed by the Assembly. . After the formation of the BJP government in the state in 1917, the said action was stopped and put on hold.

Addressing the dharna, Metropolitan Congress Committee President Dr. Jaswinder Singh Gogi said that the people of the slums have now completely understood the cunningness and deception of the BJP and all the poor people have also understood that if the slums are not regularised, If anyone has the courage to do this and give ownership rights, it is only Congress.

State Congress General Secretary Jagdish Dhiman, outgoing councilor Sangeeta Gupta, Ilyas Ansari, Mukim Ahmed, former councilor Rajesh Pundir, Metropolitan Vice President Awadhesh Kathiria, Block President Kanwali Vikrant Rathi, Block Congress President Yamuna Colony Pramod Gupta, Block Congress President Premnagar Jitendra Taneja were present in the protest. Hundreds of slum residents including Cantt Congress Women President Sushila Sharma, Magan Singh Pundir, Sanjay Bharti, Ram Kumar Thapliyal, Shubham Saini, Izhar, Sultan, Anju Bharti, Anita Das, Guddi, Vimlesh, Urmila, Rajendra Raj, Naeem. Were included.