Miffed with BJP’s Delhi unit, trader voters in national capital might give in to AAP's constant politicisation of sealing drives

BJP Delhi unit’s reluctance to rectify the party’s stand on sealing of commercial establishments in residential areas in the national capital is making it easier for Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party to turn the issue into a poll agenda On driving along Delhi’s concentric roads, away from its neat nucleus, into hundreds of colonies lost in its eastward-northward-westward realms are buildings with grazed doors and smashed windows. The Aam Aadmi Party is cornering the BJP on the sealing issue with two points: first is that the Municipal Corporation of Delhi that is demolishing the buildings on the instructions of the monitoring committee is under the charge of the BJP, and second, the Delhi Development Authority that can alter Delhi’s Master Plan also takes orders from the BJP-ruled Centre. For instance, Delhi’s walled city is a commercial area since even before a century but is still facing sealing threats and local shopping centres are being forced to pay conversion charges. Meanwhile, Vijendra Gupta of the Delhi BJP unit told Firstpost that in 2018, the DDA had, in fact, made modifications in the Delhi master plan to rectify the issue, but the Supreme Court’s monitoring committee interfered in the implementation of the changes.