Social activist Medha Patkar said she did not expect that the DMK government in Tamil Nadu, headed by Chief Minister M.K. Stalin, would carry out eviction of working class people like the one that happened recently in Govindasamy Nagar.
Addressing the media during a protest here to condemn such evictions, the convener of the National Alliance of People’s Movements (NAPM) cited the recent evictions that happened in Jahangirpuri in Delhi and said that bulldozers had become a weapon to oppress minorities and other marginalised communities in the country.
She expressed disappointment that eviction was happening even in Tamil Nadu in violation of human rights, which, she said, resulted in immolation by V.G. Kannaiyan, a resident of Elango Street in Govindasamy Nagar. She visited his family on Monday.
