The national capital is brewing in the buzz as the opposition has come up barricading the central government’s decision. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) stands to oppose the decision of the central government to evict residents from the slum. In solidarity with the affected residents, AAP has announced a week-long campaign named ‘Ghar Bachao BJP Hatao’ (Save Home Remove BJP) starting from January 14.
This campaign will have several street meetings in the city to grab public support and highlight the BJP’s alleged ‘anti-poor’ policies. A culminating demonstration is planned at the BJP headquarters on January 21.
The opposition leader Gopal Rai has accused the BJP of using evictions as a weapon to target and silence the opposition. He said, “Once again, the central government is bent on making people homeless in Delhi. The Centre government has ordered all its agencies to make people living in clusters homeless, most recently in Mehrauli, Sarojini Nagar area, Dhaula Kuan. This happened in Sarojini Nagar; Kejriwal ji went to court and got it stopped, and now it has come to light that notices have been pasted at two places in the New Delhi area, the survey is being done there, promises are made before the elections and then people are informed after the elections.”
Rai further raised questions over the timing of the eviction announcement i.e., just a day after AAP announced Kejriwal’s visit to Goa. He alleged that the central government is using the ED (Enforcement Directorate) as a weapon to harass the opposition.
“It is clear that BJP wants to stop the opposition leaders, BJP has made ED a weapon, notice did not reach the Chief Minister’s residence but before that this news was received through media, ED is working like an organization of BJP.” said Gopal Rai.
Previously, Delhi minister Atishi Marlena accused the Union Government for their plans to completely get rid of slums in Delhi. “Two days back, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s advisor Tarun kapoor held a meeting with all the land-owning agencies in which DDA, L&D, railways, MCD officials were called and clearly instructed to get rid of all the slums in Delhi,” she said.
“We have been witnessing this since a few months now that wherever there’s land of Central Government, all slums are being removed from those areas. In November, during GRAP (Graded Response Action Plan), Sunder nursery slums of Mathura were destroyed on the instructions of the Central Government” she added.
Atishi lashed out at BJP for covering up the slum areas amid the G20 and US President Joe Biden’s visit to India. “PM Modi does not want slum areas in Delhi. The slums were covered with green sheets during G20 because PM Modi does not want slums and he is planning to get rid of them completely”, she said.
