Firing yet another salvo at Narendra Modi government, Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi claimed that the government had diluted provisions of Real Estate Regulatory Authority Bill. He said on Saturday that the government was making the legislation pro-builders from being pro-buyers.
After meeting several NCR flat buyers, the Congress Vice President said that he had learnt that even middle class people that are “suppressed” on matters related to land. Gandhi has been attacking the Centre over land bill issue and the plight of farmers. He has also been travelling quite a bit and meeting farmers in different parts of the country after returning from his sabbatical.
Assuring homebuyers that he would stand by them, Gandhi said that it was due to lack of transparency, the buyers were left in a quandary.
They are told that they will get the flat on a particular day. But for years they don’t get the flat. They are promised that a great flat would be given but what is delivered is different.
– Rahul Gandhi, Congress Vice President
He said that someone was promised that the flat will have a good view, but a few months after the flat was delivered, another building came up and the view was blocked.
He said the government was trying to destroy the Bill which Congress led UPA had brought to regulate the real estate sector.
The main dilution is that there was clear transparency. The carpet area that you sign is what would be given. They have diluted and from pro-buyer, made it pro-builder.
– Rahul Gandhi, Congress Vice President
Attacking the government, he said, “What it is doing against farmers and tribals, it is also doing against the middle class”. I have assured them that I will stand by them just as I stand with farmers and tribals”.
(With inputs from PTI)
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