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The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) connected Monday (June 15, 2026) continued to deed retired astatine the Delhi authorities implicit alleged demolitions successful the protected O-zone, which houses an estimated 15 lakh radical crossed 91 unauthorised colonies and astir a twelve villages, contempt assurances from Chief Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MPs from Delhi.
On June 9, the CM had announced that nary existing operation would beryllium demolished successful the eco-sensitive portion on the 22-km Yamuna floodplains from Wazirabad to Okhla, allaying apprehension among residents of an anti-encroachment thrust pursuing the installation, earlier this month, of signboards informing against unauthorised construction.
The Opposition enactment has claimed that since Ms. Gupta’s assurance, bulldozers person razed respective residential structures successful the O-zone.
The enactment has dared the BJP authorities to promulgate an ordinance to supply ineligible extortion from demolition to residents successful the protected zone.
Addressing a property league astatine the AAP headquarters, party’s Burari MLA Sanjeev Jha said radical surviving successful O-zone colonies person been surviving nether changeless fearfulness arsenic demolitions proceed contempt repeated assurances from BJP leaders.
“Residents of 91 colonies and respective villages person mislaid their bid of caput due to the fact that of continuous demolitions. MPs, Ministers, MLAs and the Chief Minister person been giving assurances, yet demolitions person not stopped. If houses proceed to beryllium demolished contempt these assurances, it intelligibly means thing other is deliberately going on,” helium said.
