Congress chief P Chidambaram on Thursday launched a scathing assault on the BJP over the MCD’s anti-encroachment drive in Delhi’s violence-hit Jahangirpuri, saying “we see the rule of law break down everyday” and shortly there will likely be “no law and no rules”.
In a sequence of tweets, Chidambaram mentioned, “We see the Rule of Law break down every day. Soon there will be no law and no rules.”
“Once arbitrary ‘Orders’ override ‘Law’, we are on the road to hell. The Bulldozer represents the arbitrary ‘Order’. The Supreme Court represents ‘Law’. Yesterday, we saw the Bulldozer defy the Law. Let’s see what happens today,” the previous dwelling minister mentioned.
Congress chief Rahul Gandhi had additionally attacked the federal government on Wednesday over the usage of bulldozers in violence-hit areas of Delhi and Madhya Pradesh and alleged that this can be a demolition of India’s constitutional values and focused in opposition to the poor and minorities.
He additionally urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to modify off “bulldozers of hate” and swap on energy crops, whereas highlighting the scarcity of coal within the nation as a result of which energy crops had been being shut down. “This is a demolition of India’s constitutional values. This is state-sponsored targeting of poor and minorities. BJP must bulldoze the hatred in their hearts instead,” Gandhi mentioned on Twitter, whereas sharing an image of a rushing bulldozer on one facet and the Constitution on the opposite.
Several concrete and non permanent buildings near a mosque had been introduced down on Wednesday morning as a part of an anti-encroachment drive by the BJP-ruled North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC), days after the northwest Delhi neighbourhood was rocked by communal violence.
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