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The Min­istry of Hous­ing and Ur­ban De­vel­op­ment has strong­ly con­demned re­cent com­men­taries on its poli­cies for hous­ing and squat­ting made by a na­tion­al news­pa­per and an Op­po­si­tion MP, de­scrib­ing them as “ir­re­spon­si­ble mis­rep­re­sen­ta­tions” of the re­al­i­ties in the lo­cal hous­ing sec­tor, and of Gov­ern­ment’s at­tempts to find so­lu­tions to those is­sues.

“The Min­is­ter of Hous­ing and Ur­ban De­vel­op­ment cat­e­gor­i­cal­ly re­jects the mis­lead­ing claims pre­sent­ed in the Sun­day Ex­press ed­i­to­r­i­al, ‘Hous­ing Headache Needs Ur­gent Med­ica­tion’, and the re­cent ar­ti­cle by MP Rush­ton Paray, ‘Lack of Struc­tured Poli­cies to Ad­dress Squat­ting Cri­sis’,” the min­istry said in a strong­ly word­ed state­ment.

“The ed­i­to­r­i­al ir­re­spon­si­bly claims that the Gov­ern­ment is "fail­ing" to pro­vide ad­e­quate hous­ing so­lu­tions. Noth­ing could be fur­ther from the truth,” it as­sert­ed.