Jahangirpuri Demolition: TMC, SP Leaders To Visit Delhi To Probe NDMC Drive

A five-member delegation of female MPs of Trinamool Congress (TMC) that include Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, Sajda Ahmed and Aparupa Poddar will visit Jahangirpuri today.

New Delhi: After Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) fact-finding committee visited Bagtui village in Birbhum district of West Bengal, leaders from Trinamool Congress and Samajwadi Party announced their visit to Delhi's Jahangirpuri where the municipal authorities carried out demolition drive.

A five-member delegation of female MPs of Trinamool Congress (TMC) including Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, Sajda Ahmed, Aparupa Poddar, Mala Roy, and Satabdi Roy will visit Jahangirpuri today, according to the sources of news agency ANI.

Samajwadi Party has also announced a five-member delegation that will visit the Jahangirpuri area.  A delegation of 16 members of Congress including Delhi Congress Chief Anil Chaudhry, AICC Gen Secretary Ajay Maken and AICC Incharge of Delhi Shakti Sinh Gohil visited the area on Thursday.

Calling the BJP-ruled civic body’s demolition drive unconstitutional, Communist Party of India (Marxist) Politburo member Brinda Karat also visited the demolition site on Wednesday.

Meanwhile, All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen chief Asaduddin Owaisi visited the area on Wednesday and came out strongly againts the BJP terming the action by the North Delhi Municipal Corporation a "targetted drive" and accused the party of vigilante justice.

Supreme Court ordered to maintain a "status-quo" on the demolition drive conducted by North Delhi Municipal Corporation in Jahangirpuri.

The North Delhi Municipal Corporation on Wednesday had scheduled an "encroachment removal action programme", wherein illegal construction in the Jahangirpuri area was to be removed on Wednesday and Thursday.

An apex court bench of Justices L Nageswara Rao and B R Gavai issued notice to the Centre and others on the plea filed by the Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind that claimed that buildings of Muslim riots accused are being razed, PTI reported.

The apex court also said that it will take a serious view of the demolition on Wednesday, which was carried out even after its orders though the NDMC Mayor was informed.