Sealing drive: Vijay Goel to meet SC-appointed monitoring committee over 'irregularities'

Union minister Vijay Goel Wednesday said he will meet the Supreme Court-appointed monitoring committee to raise objections over "irregularities" committed in the ongoing sealing drive in the city.

During a protest against the alleged arbitrary sealing in Trinagar in northwest Delhi, Goel said there were complaints that shops were sealed even after their owners paid conversion charges to municipal corporations.

"Also, there were complaints that houses were getting sealed as shops in the drive and he will raise all these issues in his meeting with the monitoring committee," a statement from Goel's office said.

The parliamentary affairs minister claimed people have committed suicide due to the sealing drive and cited the example of a 35-year-old tailor in Keshavpuram, it said.

Goel said that stakeholders involved in the sealing process need to take cognisance of "resentment" among people and take immediate and corrective steps to address their grievances.

The three municipal corporations in the city, ruled by Goel's party BJP, are conducting the sealing drive under the supervision of the monitoring committee over violations of the Delhi Master Plan and other irregularities.