New Delhi: The land allotted to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for constructing its office does not belong to the DDA, the city’s land owning agency said on Wednesday.
On Tuesday, Delhi’s deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia accused Lt. Governor Najeeb Jung of allotting the land, earmarked for a school, to the BJP to construct an office in the heart of the capital.
Responding to the allegation, the Lt. Governor-headed DDA said: “Land of BJP office site does not belong to DDA and has not been allotted by DDA.”
“The site belonged to Land and Development Office (L&DO),” the authority said in a statement.
“The L&DO had already allotted the land to BJP on 27 November 2014 and the site was handed over by L&DO to them on 5 December 2014. The land falls under the local jurisdiction of North Delhi Municipal Corporation,” it added.
It also said the DDA Authority meeting had processed only the change of land use on the request of L&DO for inviting public objections/suggestions in accordance with the DDA Act.
“This agenda item was circulated well in advance to all the elected members of the Authority, which included AAP’s (Aam Aadmi Party) elected members,” it said.
Urging Jung to revoke the land allotted to the BJP to construct its Delhi unit office in the heart of the capital, Sisodia had said, “I am really disappointed to know that you have allotted a land belonging to a school to the BJP for constructing its office.”
The statement was made in reference to the 809 square metres of land alloted on Delhi’s Deen Dayal Upadhyay Marg.