New Delhi: Days after connecting with farmers in Punjab and Maharashtra, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Saturday met a delegation of home-buyers in Delhi/NCR to hear out their woes, including untimely delivery of projects.
Gandhi, who met over 100 representatives of home-buyers for an hour at the Congress headquarters here, heard their grievances about delayed possession of flats and fake promises made by builders.
“I learned something new today. I thought only farmers and tribal people are suffering due to land issues. But the same issue extends to the middle-class as well, which is equally being exploited by removing transparency (clause from the real estate bill),” Gandhi told the media here.
“Home-buyers are promised a certain super area…a specific time of completion of the project… beautiful view. But what they get (from the builder) in the end is totally different,” he added.
Assuring homebuyers that he would stand by them, Mr Gandhi said that it was due to lack of transparency, the buyers were left in a quandary.
“They are told that you will get the flat on a particular day but for years they don’t get the flat. They are told the super duper area of the flat would be so much but what is delivered is different,” he said.
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.
“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,” he said.
Attacking the government, Mr Gandhi said, “What it is doing against farmers and tribals, it is also doing against the middle class”.
“I have assured them that the way I stand with farmers and tribals I stand with them also,” he told reporters.
