The use of bulldozers in violence-hit areas as a form of punishment was akin to demolishing India’s constitutional values, former Congress president Rahul Gandhi said on Wednesday, even as dramatic visuals of CPI(M) Polit Bureau member Brinda Karat waving a Supreme Court order to stop a bulldozer in Delhi’s Jahangirpuri area went viral.
Opposition leaders across the political spectrum slammed the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) for trying to carry out a demolition drive against “illegal structures” in Jahangirpuri, the area in northeast Delhi, which had seen rioting and pelting of stones last Saturday on the occasion of Hanuman Jayanti.