Cong plans Nyaya Yudh

By Our Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI, DEC. 14.

Taking up cudgels on behalf of lakhs of affected industrial workers and factory owners, the Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee(I) today announced its decision to launch a ``Nyaya Yudh'' against the indiscriminate orders being issued by the Nodal Agency headed by the Urban Development Minister, Mr. Jagmohan, for the closure of units.

Addressing a press conference here, the DPCC(I) president, Mr. Subhash Chopra, declared that in the first phase, a massive demonstration would be held at Jantar Mantar tomorrow in which not only the Congress workers but also industrial workers, factory owners and representatives of the Delhi Manufacturers Federation would take part. ``It is our attempt to take up the cause of the poor who would be hit hard by displacement. It is also a bid to highlight the anti-people policies of the BJP led Central Government which is bent upon uprooting the downtrodden under Mr. Jagmohan's leadership'', he added.

Similarly, Mr. Chopra said that there was clear contradiction in the two notification issued by the Lt-Governor, Mr.Vijai Kapoor, and the Urban Development Minister, Mr. Jagmohan, with regard to closure of polluting units.

He said fear had gripped the poor industrial workers and factory owners who do not know how to react to the present situation. He accused to BJP of doublespeak and said its leaders were talking in different voices.

On the one hand, the Delhi unit president, Mr. Mange Ram Garg, said the people have nothing to fear from the orders of Mr. Jagmohan, the former Chief Minister, Mr. Madan Lal Khurana, had announced that he would launch an agitation on the issue. This is all a planned conspiracy of the BJP leaders to mislead the lakhs of industrial workers and factory owners so they remain entangled in confusion and forget the real issue. This political drama was being enacted to gain cheap political mileage, he added.

He said a delegation of industrial workers, units owners and representatives of Delhi Manufacturers Federation, under the leadership of Mr. Ajit Chaudhary, Councillor, had met him at the DPCC(I) office and sought his urgent intervention. Among those present during the meeting with the industrial representatives were senior party leaders, Mr. Jag Parvesh Chandra, Mr. Sajjan Kumar, Mr. Jagdish Tytler and Hastasal MLA, Mr. Mukesh Sharma.

The former Union Minister, Mr. Jagdish Tytler, accused the BJP leaders, particularly Mr. Khurana, of shedding crocodile tears for the affected people. He said Mr. Khurana had been meeting the Prime Minister, Mr. Atal Behari Vajpayee, and making claims that relief will come soon, but no such thing has taken place. ``If the six BJP MPs from Delhi have any morality left, they should resign as they had failed to persuade their Minister to change the Master Plan of Delhi.'' He pointed out that Delhi would stand to lose around Rs. 350 crores in revenue if these units were closed.

Mr. Mukesh Sharma said the Nodal Agency should formulate some financial package for the workers who would be affected and the money should be handed over to the Delhi Government for distribution. He said the BJP leaders and their previous Government was responsible for the present mess.

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