AAP will stage protest against BJP on Jan 21 for leaving poor ‘homeless’: Rai
13-Jan-2024 06:18 PM 2004
New Delhi, Jan 13 (Reporter) Alleging that Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) has demolished slums in Delhi and leaving slum-dwellers 'homeless', Senior Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Gopal Rai on Saturday said that the party will stage a protest against the BJP-led Centre on January 21. Addressing a press conference here, the Minister for Environment said, “It has been decided at a meeting of the Aam Aadmi Party MLAs held today to start a campaign, ‘Ghar bachao, BJP hatao’ across Delhi from January 14 to January 21 to protest against the BJP-led drive. “Our MLAs and Councillors will create awareness through nukkad sabhas in various slum colonies across Delhi against the BJP and Centre’s drive. Our campaign will end with a demonstration at 12 noon outside the BJP headquarters on January 21, he added. "We will hold nukkad sabhas at BR Camp and DIP Camp under the New Delhi assembly constituency on Sunday, the Minister said. He said that the BJP-ruled central government directed its various agencies to intensify the drive to make those living in JJ (jhuggi jhopri) clusters and unauthorised colonies homeless. Supporting his accusation, he gave examples of the demolitions carried out in Mehrauli and Dhaula Kuan last year and once again through the misuse of its agencies, they are bent upon this machination in this biting cold. “Sometime back, Railway has issued notice for demolition of shanties in Sarojini Nagar which was got stayed by the court with the efforts of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal,” Rai said. “DDA pasted notices at the BR Camp and DIP Camp, a survey is on and in a few days, a drive to render them homeless will start,” he said. Criticising the BJP, the Minister said on the one hand it says “Jahan jhuggi, wahan makan”, (a house in place of a shanty), on the other hand, it makes them homeless without making an alternate arrangement. This is despite repeated questioning by the courts on the government’s rehabilitation plan for the slum-dwellers before evicting them. But the BJP hates the poor and it doesn’t understand how poor people live and in one stroke bulldozers render thousands of people homeless in a day,” said the AAP Delhi State Convenor...////...
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