Shaheen Bagh demolition drive: Protesters stall process, force bulldozers to retreat | 10 points

Protests erupted at Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh, the scene of the epic sit-in towards the brand new citizenship legislation, on Monday with a whole lot of individuals, together with ladies, bodily blocking bulldozers and forcing the native municipal authority to desert an anti-encroachment drive.

Listed below are the highest developments:

1. As quickly as bulldozers rolled into the locality, teeming with police and paramilitary personnel, to drag down alleged unlawful constructions, a whole lot of individuals gathered on the streets and atop buildings.
2. Many raised slogans towards the authorities and staged sit-ins on the roads, whereas a lady protester hopped onto a bulldozer, the earthmoving machine that has emerged as an emblem of presidency energy within the current months.
3. As a fidgety bulldozer driver nervously moved the machine from one a part of the road to a different amid the unfolding drama, the authorities referred to as off the proposed demolition ordered by the South Delhi Municipal Company (SDMC).
4. The SDMC has lodged a criticism towards AAP MLA from Okhla Amanatullah Khan and his supporters at Shaheen Bagh police station for obstructing the demolition drive and stopping public servants from discharging their duties. After SDMC officers reached Shaheen Bagh with bulldozers on Monday morning, some locals began eradicating “unlawful constructions” on their very own, an official stated. TV channels confirmed folks knocking down an iron scaffolding in entrance of a constructing.
5. The protesters raised slogans towards the BJP-ruled SDMC in addition to the Centre and demanded that the motion be stopped. Some ladies protesters even stood in entrance of the bulldozers to cease them from transferring ahead.
6. In December 2019, Shaheen Bagh was the epicentre of protests towards the Citizenship (Modification) Act (CAA). The sit-in, largely steered by ladies, was referred to as off in March 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic struck the town. The political battle over the proposed demolition drive reached the Supreme Court docket, which refused to entertain a plea filed by the CPI-M towards the train, saying it can not intrude within the matter on the occasion of a political social gathering.
7. A bench of justices L Nageswara Rao and B R Gavai requested the Left social gathering to strategy the Delhi Excessive Court docket as an alternative. “Why is the CPI(M) submitting a petition? What’s the elementary proper that’s being violated? Not on the behest of political events. This isn’t the platform. You go to the excessive court docket,” the bench stated.
8. SDMC’s Central Zone Chairman Rajpal Singh instructed PTI that unlawful constructions within the space couldn’t be eliminated because of the protests. He, nevertheless, added the civic physique plans to hold out an anti-encroachment drive close to Gurdwara Highway at New Mates Colony on Tuesday, whereas an analogous train has been chalked out for Meharchand Market in Lodhi Colony close to the Sai Baba Mandir and on the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium metro station on Might 11.
9. The SDMC has, in the meantime, defended its motion, with an official saying that the drive was deliberate after a radical inspection. “It’s our responsibility to take away encroachment wherever it’s seen within the metropolis. We have been solely discharging our responsibility. We are going to proceed our motion towards encroachment tomorrow and the day after as per our motion plan,” the official stated.
10. Later within the day, Delhi BJP Chief Adesh Gupta wrote to SDMC mayor Mukesh Suryan and Delhi Police Commissioner Rakesh Asthana requesting them to register an FIR towards the AAP and Congress leaders who obstructed the anti-encroachment drive. The protests brought on site visitors snarls at Shaheen Bagh, Kalindi Kunj, Jaitpur, Sarita Vihar and Mathura Highway, amongst different locations. 

Additionally Learn: Shaheen Bagh: SC declines to entertain plea towards anti-encroachment drive

Newest India Information