Delhi BJP urges MCD to demolish ‘dangerous' 5th and 6th floors of buildings
Party spokesperson Praveen Shankar Kapoor stated that statements by Aam Aadmi Party leaders regarding Saturday's building collapse in Mustafabad, in which 11 people were killed, were misleading and blamed the party for promoting illegal constructions.
According to the building department regulations of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi, only three-floor constructions, including the ground are permitted in Delhi.
'However, in Muslim-majority areas across the city, the construction of fourth floors is
common, and in nearly three-quarters of the buildings, fifth and sixth floors have also been added,' he said.
Between 2015 and 2025, illegal constructions flourished in these Muslim-majority areas under the protection of AAP MLAs and councillors. These are areas where not even the police and the Municipal Corporation have been able to stop illegal construction, he said.
The past 10 years bear testimony to the fact that whenever the MCD attempted to take action against illegal fifth and sixth-floor constructions,
AAP MLAs such as Haji Yunus, Abdul Rehman, Amanatullah Khan, Imran Hussain, Somdutt, and Shoaib Iqbal led aggressive crowds against such actions, Kapoor said.
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