Raze BJP office, Amit Shah's residence with bulldozers to end riots: AAP

Razing the residence of Union Home Minister Amit Shah and the BJP headquarters using bulldozers will free the country from communal violence and riots forever, the AAP said on Wednesday, slamming the saffron party for the demolition of several structures in Delhi’s Jahangirpuri.

The Arvind Kejriwal-led party alleged that it was the BJP that had engineered clashes between two communities in Jahangirpuri during a Hanuman Jayanti procession last week as well as other such incidents of violence in various parts of the country during Ram Navami.

With the sole motive of triggering communal violence and riots, the BJP got Rohingyas and Bangladeshis “illegally” settled in different parts of the country over the last eight years, the AAP alleged. Similarly, BJP leaders and officials of the saffron party-ruled civic bodies in Delhi got Rohingyas and Bangladeshis “illegally” settled in the national capital over the last 15 years, it alleged and demanded that the houses of these leaders and officials also be demolished using bulldozers.

Atishi’s message

“The BJP is saying violence, riots and hooliganism will stop by running bulldozers and removing encroachments. But actually, the BJP itself is engineering hooliganism, violence and riots not just in Delhi, but across the country,” AAP leader Atishi said in a video message.

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She alleged that Shah and the BJP were behind all the recent incidents of communal violence in various parts of the country during Hanuman Jayanti and Ram Navami celebrations. “Bulldozers should be run on the BJP headquarters and on the residence of Amit Shah. After this, riots will not happen in this country,” the Kalkaji MLA said.

Her remarks came after bulldozers razed several structures in Jahangirpuri during an anti-encroachment drive conducted by the BJP-ruled North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC) amid a heavy deployment of paramilitary and police personnel until the authorities received “a written order” from the Supreme Court to stop it.

The apex court stayed the anti-encroachment drive and also agreed to hear a petition challenging the civic bodys action allegedly aimed against those involved in Saturdays communal clashes in the area. The anti-encroachment drive, however, continued for an hour and a half in the area in northwest Delhi even after the court directed the authorities to stop it.