Noida: Angry buyers of the Amrapali Group drummed their dissent today
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Noida: Angry buyers of the Amrapali Group drummed their dissent today

In the course of their protest march named ‘Dhol Bajao Sarkar Jagao’, the participants had played drums while walking from the Sector 18 metro station to the Sector 16 metro station of Noida.

Noida: Angry buyers of the Amrapali Group drummed their dissent today A glimpse of the banners carried by the protestors

Today hundreds of angry buyers of the Amrapali Group who have been struggling to get possession of their apartments had staged a unique protest to jolt the state and central government into action. In the course of their protest march named ‘Dhol Bajao Sarkar Jagao’, the participants had played drums while walking from the Sector 18 metro station to the Sector 16 metro station of Noida. The protest march finally concluded at Gate No 2 of the Sector 18 metro station. Needless to say, this drum led protest had disrupted traffic along the entire stretch from the Sector 18 metro station to the Sector 16 metro station. 

According to the agitated buyers, before the state elections BJP MLAs had assured them that if BJP comes to power the state government would help the entire buyer fraternity that is struggling to get possession of flats. However, today after six months of the Yogi Government, nothing has been achieved in terms of this pronounced mandate.

KK Kaushal, a buyer told City Spidey that this drum protest envisages to remind the state government about their promise and also put pressure on both the state and central governments to take the necessary action that would compel the builder to hand over possession. “All buyers want their flats at the earliest and are very uncomfortable with the developer’s ploy of trying to declare itself bankrupt," he added.

"Many buyers of Amrapali’s residential projects had reached the Supreme Court to file a PIL against the insolvency declaration,” Kaushal said. “If the builder-buyer issue has to be solved by the court then why did we choose this government, which made a host of fake promises to us,” he questioned.

The protestors also carried candles in the march as a symbol of their hope for justice.

According to the buyers, they have paid almost 90 percent of the total price of their respective apartments while booking it in 2009-10. On August 12, buyers had started an indefinite strike outside the Amrapali Group’s office in Sector 62. However, today only the buyers hailing from the senior citizen category are continuing this strike. On September 14 an eight-member buyers’ delegation of Amrapali Group had met urban development minister Suresh Kumar Khanna in Lucknow. The local MLA Pankaj Singh had also travelled with the delegation. Several BJP leaders had come to meet the buyers but no outcomes had been achieved.