Atishi accuses BJP of plotting slum demolition, vows resistance

Senior Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Atishi has accused the BJP-ruled central government of allegedly hatching a “conspiracy” to demolish all slums in the city. She stated that her party will not allow the Centre to ‘drive thousands of families into homelessness’ as long as it is in power.
“Ahead of elections, the BJP always promises people to give them houses in the same place as their existing houses, but as soon as the elections get over, all the promises fall flat.
Slums at various places across Delhi are being demolished because the Prime Minister hates slums, and according to him, slums cause him embarrassment in front of his foreign friends. But until Arvind Kejriwal is CM of Delhi, we will not let the BJP demolish any house in the slums of Delhi,” said the Delhi minister.
She further declared that her party would fight to save the houses of the poor from the streets of Delhi to Parliament. “If needed, we will stand together with people in front of bulldozers to save their houses,” she added.
AAP Senior Leader and Delhi Cabinet Minister Atishi visited BR Camp on Sunday to meet the residents of the slum. “Today, I visited BR Camp, located just behind the Race Course, where approximately 500 houses are currently occupied.
The BJP had promised residents, before every election, that it would provide a house in place of the existing houses they are living in. Residents of BR Camp showed the forms they had filled out before the elections to secure homes from the BJP. However, now that the elections are over, the BJP-led DDA has planned to demolish the slum,” she said.
She also claimed that a notice by the DDA has been pasted on the houses, informing residents that their houses will be demolished.