Amit Shah, BJP want to disrupt peace during Ramzan: AAP MLA questions NDMC's anti-encroachment drive timing
New Delhi, Apr 20: Home Minister Amit Shah and the BJP want to disturb the peaceful atmosphere of Delhi, AAP leader Amanatullah Khan on Wednesday alleged, after the NDMC scheduled an anti-encroachment drive in Jahangirpuri, which saw violent clashes between two communities last week.
In a video message on Twitter, the Okhla MLA said demolition of the houses of "a particular community" just to "harass" them in the holy month of Ramadan on the pretext of an anti-encroachment drive will further spoil the atmosphere in the area.
He appealed to the home minister and the BJP leaders to refrain from resorting to such action, cautioning that the country's atmosphere has already been vitiated.
"Such cheap politics will ruin the country if not stopped in time," Khan, also the Delhi Waqf Board chairman, said.
The BJP-ruled North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC) has scheduled a two-day anti-encroachment drive in Jahangirpuri, starting Wednesday.
On
Tuesday,
Delhi
BJP
chief
Adesh
Gupta
had
written
to
the
NDMC
mayor
to
identify
illegal
constructions
of
"rioters"
in
Jahangirpuri
and
demolish
them
using
bulldozers.
The
civic
body
requested
the
Delhi
Police
to
deploy
at
least
400
personnel,
including
women,
to
ensure
law
and
order
during
the
drive.
Jahangirpuri in north West Delhi witnessed violent clashes, including stone pelting, arson and firing, between two communities during a Hanuman Jayanti procession on Saturday. Eight police personnel and a local resident had sustained injuries.
Reacting to the NDMC move, Khan alleged, "The country's atmosphere has already been vitiated and efforts are being made to make it worse. Amit Shah and the BJP want to disturb the peaceful atmosphere of Delhi."
"Just four days ago, there was a riot in Jahangirpuri. An order has now been issued to run bulldozers on the houses of the people there and harass a particular community in the name of anti-encroachment drive," he added.
Questioning the timing of the move and the BJP dispensation's intent behind it, Khan said the civic body could have taken up the anti-encroachment drive later, if "if it is legal".
"It's the holy month of Ramadan. I want to know the what is your compulsion that you are going to demolish the houses of the people, as you did in Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, in the name of launching an anti-encroachment drive in an area hit by rioting just four days ago and the tempers are yet to cool down?" he asked the home minister and the other BJP leaders.
"This is not right. I appeal to Amit Shah and all the BJP leaders to refrain from resorting to such actions and vitiating the atmosphere of Delhi," Khan said.