Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Arvind Kejriwal and scores of people staged a sit-in near Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit’s residence on Friday morning to protest against demolition of buildings in a south Delhi locality and demanded that they be given an audience with her.
Over 100 people started gathering at Ms Dikshit’s Motilal Nehru Marg residence at 7 a.m. while Mr Kejriwal joined them an hour later to protest demolition of their houses in Shaheenbagh.
A large number of police personnel were deployed at the spot to avoid any untoward incident.
Police barricaded one side of road from Janpath side which has the entry gate to Ms Dikshit’s residence.
Protesters shouted slogans against the government action.
“The land where these people are living is there land, they have documents of it. But it’s unauthorised because you have to get the map passed by the government,” Mr Kejriwal said.
“But on October 4, 2010 Sonia Gandhi had announced that 1600 colonies will be regularised, this colony is also one of them. But despite that 500 houses were demolished,” he said.
He alleged showrooms nearby were not razed.
“We were asking for Dikshit’s time which was not given. We are not here for a clash with the government but a sit in protest,” he said.
Keywords: Aam Aadmi Party, Arvind Kejriwal, south Delhi, Shaheenbagh, urban planning, Sheila Dikshit, sit-in protest
All these days, i did not like kejriwal's politics as it was just making corruption allegations against high profile personalities. And that was of no use to anyone. But this kind of protest or highlighting issue is really for common man. I do not know whether he had assesed the legal documents of landowners for its authenticity. But still, i completely support this kind of protest by him. Because, i feel this kind of protest is step towards constructive politics rather than politics of blame.
In construction of a house even in a village, one should have a plan/map which will be approved by the panchayat. The fellow who is approving will have to be bribed.. otherwise he will not approve. What is the qualification of the fellow who approves??? Is he an engineer???? Clerks who don't have any knowledge of construction.
What a pity in our country?? Recently I had to attend one Graha pravesh. The proud owner told that I paid 40,000 rupees to get the approval passed in Bangalore that too that buliding was already there and they were paying taxes. Slowly you construct and pay me this much. Otherwise these govt Goondas will not allow the construction.
What a great nation with full of LOOT going on.??? Nobody to question the irregularities of the unauthorised Govt Goondas????
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