On a day a BJP mayor in Delhi carried out an inspection of encroachments in certain localities, and the AAP held a protest against “extortion” through the threat of bulldozers, several television news telecasts skipped the nuance to orbit around Shaheen Bagh and its 2019 protest against the controversial citizenship law.
This came days after bulldozer action in Jahangirpuri in breach of a Supreme Court order even as BJP and AAP blamed Rohingya and Bangladeshis for communal violence, and the Delhi BJP chief’s letter to the south and east Delhi mayors about the presence of Rohingya, Bangladeshis and anti-social elements in their areas. Congress leader P Chidambaram, AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi and PDP leader Mehbooba Mufti had hit out at the government over recent bulldozer drives, alleging that they were biased against Muslims.
