Jahangirpuri drive a ‘targeted demolition’: Asaduddin Owaisi
Hindustan TimesAIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi, who has strongly objected to Wednesday’s demolition drive in northwest Delhi’s Jahangirpuri, described the action as a ‘targeted demolition’, pointing to the bulldozer razing down shops in front of a mosque, but not those in front of a temple. This is a targeted demolition, I condemn it,” Owaisi said, according to news agency ANI. AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi According to reports, officials of the North Delhi Municipal Corporation, who were conducting the exercise, received Supreme Court’s status quo order just before action was about to be taken against structures in front of the temple; by then, stores in front of the mosque had been razed. The demolition drive had continued despite the Supreme Court directing a status quo as NDMC officials were yet to receive the top court order in this regard.