Working on new law to safeguard the rights of apartment buyers and owners: D K Shivakumar
Bengaluru: While speaking in the assembly on Tuesday Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar announced that the government is working on a new uniform law across Karnataka to safeguard the rights of apartment buyers and owners.
The new law seeks to abolish the existing Karnataka Apartment Ownership Act, 1972 while subsuming the Karnataka Real Estate Regulation and Development (RERA) Rules, 2017.
"Action is being taken to introduce a new Karnataka Apartment Ownership Act, which will have uniform application in all cities and towns," Shivakumar said.
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"At present, there's the 1972 law. Resident associations are being registered under cooperative societies. So, there are two separate departments. Then, there's RERA that came into effect in 2016. So, we want to abolish the existing laws and come out with a new one," Shivakumar said.
Shivakumar was responding to a calling attention motion raised by Basavanagudi BJP MLA LA Ravi Subramanya on ensuring property ownership in Bengaluru.
"What's happening right now is, construction of an apartment starts on one PID number. Then, the same PID number is divided based on the number of flats. For example, PID number 1 becomes 1/2 and so on. Some portions are retained by the owner (of the land). The ownership of land remains in that person's name," Subramanya explained.
"Resident associations should get the ownership of land. After 30-40 years, redevelopment can't be taken up because the land will still be in the name of the original owner. Also, some landlords are misusing this to obtain loans from cooperative banks. So, the registered associations should get ownership," Subramanya said.
Shivakumar said "regular developers" do not do what Subramanya said after the implementation of RERA. "I myself have built properties. We handover documents to the association. Only the unauthorised and illegal developers do this," he said, adding that he has commissioned a comprehensive mapping of property documents in the whole of Bengaluru. "The association should be the owner of the property. It's the right suggestion. We'll do it," he said
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Mamata asks TMC nominees not to leave counting centres as EC data shows BJP leading
Kolkata (PTI): West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday urged TMC candidates and agents to remain vigilant and not to leave counting centres, alleging that there was a "game plan" by the BJP and the Election Commission to show the saffron party taking a lead in the early trends of counting.
In a video message issued during the counting of votes, the TMC supremo appealed to party workers to stay put and not to lose morale.
"I appeal to everyone that neither TMC candidates nor counting agents should abandon counting centres," she said.
As trends on the Election Commission website indicated the BJP leading in 188 seats against the TMC's 94, Banerjee maintained that her party was still ahead in a significant number of constituencies.
"We are still ahead in 170 seats, but I request everyone not to lose hope," she said, adding that there were "around 70 to 100 seats where we are leading, but they are not sharing the data of those seats".
"A false narrative is being spread," she alleged.
The chief minister accused the Election Commission of "not declaring results or leads" in areas where the TMC was ahead.
"This is a game plan by the EC and the BJP as it (poll panel) is not declaring results or leads in areas where we are leading," she said.
Banerjee also alleged irregularities in the counting process at some locations.
"In several places, counting has been stopped after the first two to three rounds. In Kalyani, we have caught seven machines with severe anomalies," she claimed.
She further alleged that TMC workers were being "harassed with the help of central forces" and that party offices were being "vandalised and forcefully captured".
"With the help of central forces, they are harassing and torturing AITC workers. Our offices have been vandalised," she said, also alleging that voter list revision exercises were "purposefully done to target seats where we were strong".
Seeking to reassure party workers, Banerjee said more rounds of counting were yet to take place and urged them to stay firm.
"Fourteen to eighteen rounds of counting will happen. You will surely emerge victorious. Don't be afraid; fight like tigers," she said.
Her remarks came as counting trends suggested that the BJP was leading in 188 seats and had crossed the halfway mark of 148 in the 294-member assembly, pointing to a potential shift in the state's political landscape.
Counting for 293 constituencies was underway with postal ballots, followed by EVM votes.
Officials cautioned that trends could change as more rounds are counted, and final results would be known later in the day.
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