: Roots of bulldozer politics go back to Delhis Turkman Gate, May 31, 1976 #IndiaNEWS #National <br>Eight police personnel and a local resident were injured, stone-pelting, arson and torching

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Roots of bulldozer politics go back to Delhis Turkman Gate, May 31, 1976 #IndiaNEWS #National
<br>Eight police personnel and a local resident were injured, stone-pelting, arson and torching of vehicles were reported during the communal violence.
Incidentally, the anti-encroachment drive took place soon after the Delhi BJP president Adesh Gupta had written to the North MCD Mayor, demanding identification and demolition of illegal encroachment and construction by those arrested in the Jahangirpuri violence.
As bulldozers razed around 20 shops and other structures, the Supreme Court ordered to halt the drive. However, despite the courts directive, the drive continued for about two hours.
The crushed cart of a street vendor, children picking up coins and tetra packs from the rubble of a demolished juice box, and humiliated families in Jahangirpuri after the demolition drive have somehow brought back memories of the infamous Turkman Gate demolition during the Emergency 47 years ago which even witnessed police firing and killing of residents of the area due to fierce opposition to the demolition.
Javed, whose small stall to sell cigarettes, cold drinks and water was demolished, said that people who work hard and earn their daily bread are the ones who suffered from that demolition drive.
Do I look like a rioter? To us, this is all political. We understand what is going on. We are being targeted, he said.
All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen chief Asaduddin Owaisi also compared the demolition drive to the Turkman Gate incident of 1976.
Turkman Gate 2022, history tells you those in power in 1976 are a spent force in present times, this BJP and AAP should be remember, he wrote on Twitter. Power is not eternal.
Jahangirpuri was not alone, on 10 February this year as south Delhis Mehrauli Archaeological Park gets a makeover ahead of the G20 Summit in Delhi in September, a massive anti-encroachment drive by the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) took place in the Ladha Sarai village of Mehrauli.
The demolition drive was carried out pursuant to hundreds of eviction orders slapped by the DDA last December, which ordered that encroachers remove themselves within 10 days.
The DDA demolished several jhuggis and other multi-storey buildings situated on the border of Mehrauli Archaeological Park, in Ladha Sarai village, in the name of its so-called demarcation exercise to remove the encroachment.
The exercise is alleged to have been pending for years. However, the bulldozers were met with resistance by the residents, who continued to protest against the demolition drive amid heavy police security and knocked on the doors of the Delhi High Court, requesting to stop the demolition.
The DDA continued its demolition drive for sometime despite the order of the Delhi High Courts single-judge bench of Justice Manmeet Preetam Singh Arora to put on hold the demolition and maintain the status quo at the Ghosiya slum colony.

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