The Winter Session of Delhi Assembly ended with heavy verbal exchange between Leader of the Opposition Prof. Vijay Kumar Malhotra and chief minister Sheila Dikshit on Friday when the opposition raised the issue of regularisation of illegal colonies.
Mr Malhotra alleged that the Delhi government had cheated and committed “fraud” on the people of illegal colonies by not developing them in the past 13 years, prompting Ms Dikshit to retort saying such words cannot be used to describe a government elected by the people.
The issue of illegal colonies was raised on all five days of the session, which was adjourned sine die on Friday.
Ms Dikshit had told the House on Thursday that the task of mapping and finalisation of boundaries of illegal colonies will be completed in a month after which development work would start. However, Mr Malhotra asked the government what was it doing for the last 13 years it has been in power. He said the government has cheated the people of such colonies and played a fraud upon them.
Ms Dikshit demanded that the word “fraud” be removed from the House proceedings.
“What do you mean by fraud? I object to that. A senior leader like you should not use such words. We were elected by the people, let people say that. You keep asking us what have we done. If you want you come here (government) and do what you want,” she said.