At around 8.30am on 20 April, Rahima Begum, a street vendor in New Delhi, heard that the municipal authorities would be conducting an “anti-encroachment” demolition of makeshift homes and businesses in Jahangirpuri, where she lived and ran a roadside soft-drink shop with her family. The company’s website states: “Over the years, JCB has invested Rs20bn in India, and today employs …
AS THE BULLDOZER BROKE THROUGH THE tin shed of a fruit cart at Delhi’s Jahangirpuri, and there were visuals of a mobile repair shop outside a mosque collapsing like a pack of cards, the television anchor was beside herself with joy, terming it as “historic action against illegal encroachment”. Asked by Anjana Om Kashyap on Aaj Tak to respond to …
Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind files plea in the Supreme Court after properties mainly belonging to Muslims are bulldozed in BJP-ruled states. “Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind has filed a petition in the Supreme Court against the dangerous politics of bulldozers that have been started to destroy minorities especially Muslims under the guise of crime prevention in BJP-ruled states,” the group’s president, Arshad Madani, tweeted on …
Recently, the news of Madhya Pradesh Police in Khargone bulldozing a house aided under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana or PMAY in a recently conducted activity against illegal occupation came. Following this, the reports of demolishing the house of one Haseena Fakhroo came, which was reportedly built under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana or PMAY. A house built under the …
The Home Minister of Madhya Pradesh, Narottam Mishra, asked why clashes and violence are reported only during “our festivals” as he faced questions about communal harmony in the state. Is that not correct?” Mishra told India Today TV as he responded to Asaduddin Owaisi’s allegations that the BJP uses festivals like Ram Navami to spread communal hatred in society even …