A day after the South Delhi Municipal Corporation halted an anti-encroachment drive in Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh due to the protest by the thousands of residents and some opposition political leaders, the authority on Thursday again carried out the demolition drive in some parts of Delhi including Rohini’s KN Katju Marg, Prem Nagar and Madanpur Khadar Ward.

People were seen removing their temporary structures on their own before the demolition begin. To maintain peace, law, and order in the area, the police force along with paramilitary personnel are being deployed.

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Take a look at the video of anti-encroachment drive in some of the parts of Delhi

Agitated people raised slogans in protest against the demolition drive in Delhi’s Madanpur Khadar Ward, urging the civic body to stop the demotions in the area. Aam Admi Party (AAP) MLA from Okhla constentunecy who was earlier detained by the police for creating an obstruction in the demolition drive at Shaheen Bagh also protested against the demolition drive. MLA said he is ready to go to jail if it saves the houses of poor people in Delhi.

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Meanwhile, an anti-encroachment demolition drive is still underway in Delhi’s Mangolpuri by North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC).

Reacting to the demoltion drive, Delhi Congress chief Ch. Anil Kumar said the authority has woken up from sleep after 15 years to play bulldozer politics and trying to destoy the poor people’s livelihood in Delhi. He said the the authority demolished properties first at Jahangirpuri, and now at other locations in the city. He further added that the rulling BJP is targeting more than eight lakh poor street vendors to snatched their livelihoods.

To this, the Delhi BJP president Adesh Gupta wrote to the Delhi Police Commissioner, saying that some AAP and Congress leaders are hindrance the anti-encroachment drive and asked to take legal action agianst them.

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