EVERY BENEFICIARY DESERVES TENANCY – NO MORE THREATS! NO MORE BLACK MAIL!
Yesterday’s Parsi Times of 21st May 2022 carries a page titled “L&L –TO-TENANCY FOR ALL-NOT JUST THE RICH’ SAYS TRUSTEE KERSI RANDERIA” which is full of distortions, deliberate misconceptions, fabrications and misleading statements in an attempt to stop this beneficial right of conversion to all Licensees so that they can be terrorized (as was the case from 2015-2020).
STAMP DUTY
In the Parsi Times, he refers to is the very high Stamp Duty payable for this Conversion which the beneficiaries will have to bear. This is deliberate misinformation to keep Licensees away from becoming Tenants. Please note the Stamp Duty Payable will range from Rs. 2 Lakhs to Rs. 5 Lakhs at highest and hence this is a false bogey being created by Kersi Randeria so that Licensees do not opt for Tenancy.
Since Godrej Baug lands were freed under ULC in 1984 with rent to be charged, we have been advised that Contractual Tenancy with Clauses to protect the Parsi ONLY Covenant can be executed for all eligible Licensees or in the alternative the lease route be incorporated especially for Godrej Baug licensees so that Stamp Duty is minimized as per ULC order of 1984.
We are surprised that the Managing Committee of Godrej Baug have not approached the BPP to take full advantage of this conversion which will protect them and their families forever, especially since stamp duty payable will not be more than Rs. 5 Lakhs for anyone.
If Kersi Randeria is genuinely in favor of conversion of Leave and Licenses to Tenancy than he should stop taking superfluous objections to the conversion and join Armaity and her group and ensure that all poor Licensees, especially those residing at Nirlon Parsi Colony, Contractor Baug, Panthaky Baug, Kharegat Colony, Gamadia Colony, Captain Colony Bharucha Baug, DPC, and Godrej Baug are first given Tenancy and thereafter the rest.
CONVERSION FOR EVERYONE
Secondly, the Conversion of Leave and Licence to Tenancy resolved in February 2022 was initially ONLY for all those Licensees who have been allotted flats free by the BPP. Licensees who have paid deposits or donations were kept out of its purview in the initial stage.
Yet the wily Kersi Randeria interprets it that it is only for conversion of licensees who have been allotted on RSD to convert their deposits to Donation and hence only for the Rich. This is a blatant lie if not a deliberate misinterpretation of the Resolution of Conversion of LL to Tenancy of ONLY licensees given flats for free under Merit Rating Scheme. In fact, this is nothing but negative campaigning from Kersi Randeria.
Hence Community should not believe this deliberate attempt to misguide the community and every licensee who was allotted a flat free of cost has the right to convert it to tenancy – free of cost! In fact, the three cases which were resolved for conversion after the passing of the resolution on 22nd March 2022 were all beneficiaries who were allotted flats free of costs not under the RSD or Donation. Kersi Randeria though aware of the above, yet is misleading the community. He has thereafter got a Stay on conversion of Leave and Licenses to tenancy from the CEC.
Kersi Randeria wants a commitment from the Unity Team that Conversion be done first for the poor and then the rich. This is exactly what Armaity and her Unity Team want! Yet a deliberate misguidance is being very cleverly done so that Licensees do not go for conversion but remain as Licensees who can be threatened and blackmailed as hitherto.
Community members do not get swayed by this false and clever strategy that this Conversion is only for rich. This is a ploy to distract the community from the positive work done by Mrs. Tirandaz, Viraf Mehta and Xerxes Dastur.
LET US LEAVE THE DECISION TO THE COMMUNITY TO DECIDE WHETHER ALL ELIGIBLE LICENSEES SHOULD BE CONVERTED TO TENANCIES STARTING FROM THE POOR FIRST AND NOT LET THE LIKES OF KERSI RANDERIA HOODWINK THE COMMUNITY INTO BELEIVING OTHERWISE.
Source: Parsi Junction
