Chandigarh Congress has expressed its deep anguish and pain at merciless demolishing of hundreds of hutments of poor inhabitants of sector 25 Chandigarh.
Terming the bulldozing of the huts in sector 25 as a cruel blow on the poor people, Rajiv Sharma, spokesperson of Chandigarh Congress, stated that it has been proved once again that the BJP is against the welfare and development of economically weaker sections and middle classes. While the BJP governments have been providing a myriad of facilities to the rich people one after the other, no effective welfare scheme for the common people has been implemented in the city. He alleged that not a single housing scheme for the poor and the middle classes has been announced in the last 11 years, which has put a tremendous pressure on existing housing infrastructure. The Congress spokesperson lamented that the administration under the BJP led Union Home Ministry is harassing the residents of the city by sending notices of penalties over minor violations in residential and commercial buildings, by demolishing the abode of poor people and by imposing new taxes repeatedly on poor and middle classes.
H.S.Lucky, president of Chandigarh Congress, also condemned the insesitive action of the administration. While urging the UT administration to make alternate arrangements for displaced families immediately, Lucky stated that it is utterly inhumane to render young children, women, old, and infirm people homeless in such a heartless manner. He stated that it was Congress who brought dozens of Housing schemes to cater to all the needy sections of the society, while the present Administration under the directions from the BJP is bent upon evicting the poor from their existing abodes.
He urged the administration to see the reason and refrain from blindly following the dictatorial and anti-people orders of the BJP.
