‘State-sponsored targeting of minorities’: Rahul Gandhi on Jahangirpuri demolition drive

“This is a demolition of India’s constitutional values. This is state-sponsored targeting of poor & minorities. BJP must bulldoze the hatred in their hearts instead,” Gandhi tweeted.

This is a demolition of India’s constitutional values.

This is state-sponsored targeting of poor & minorities.

BJP must bulldoze the hatred in their hearts instead. pic.twitter.com/ucSJK9OD9g

— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) April 20, 2022

Earlier in the day, bulldozers razed several structures in violence-hit Jahangirpuri during an anti-encroachment drive by the North Delhi Municipal Corporation but it was stopped following a Supreme Court order. The court asked the authorities to maintain status quo. It will the hear petitions challenging the demolitions on Thursday.

Appearing for Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind, Senior Advocate Dushyant Dave told the court that “this is completely unauthorised, unconstitutional, demolition which is now ordered in Delhi, in Jahangirpuri area, where allegedly riots took place.”