AAP tells LG to resign for felling trees in Satbari

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Monday sought the resignation of lieutenant governor (LG) VK Saxena over the issue of felling of 1,100 trees in Satbari, south Delhi, for a road widening project in the environmentally sensitive Ridge area. It also sought a “high level” probe into the illegal felling and “placing of facts before Supreme Court”.

AAP’s Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh and Delhi minister Saurabh Bharadwaj, in separate press conferences, alleged that the land for road widening was to be acquired from farmhouses in the region, but “LG got trees cut”.

“As many as 1,100 trees were cut down by the LG of Delhi... Even the Supreme Court reprimanded, but the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has maintained silence. The BJP, which criticises Arvind Kejriwal and the AAP day and night, is not uttering a word against the LG despite being repeatedly reprimanded by the Supreme Court. This means that the BJP is fully involved in the destruction of Delhi along with the LG,” Sanjay Singh said.