“…This is what I get in return?”: Uttarkashi tunnel rat hole-miner’s house razed by DDA

Munna Qureshi, another member of the Uttarkashi rescue team, said that “The DDA people did not even give notice. They directly came here and started demolishing the house. When we raised our voices, we were sent to the police station. Today we have lost all hopes. When all international teams could not rescue the labourers, we went ahead and rescued our fellow labourers in 27 hours, but the DDA did not even take 17 minutes to raze the house”.
Meanwhile, Senior Aam Adami Party (AAP) leader Atishi earlier accused the BJP-ruled central government of allegedly hatching a “conspiracy” to demolish all slums in the city and said that her party will not allow Centre to ‘drive thousands of families into homelessness’ till it is in power.
“Ahead of elections, the BJP always promises people to give them houses in the same place as their existing houses, but as soon as the elections get over, all the promises fall flat. Slums at various places across Delhi are being demolished because the Prime Minister hates slums, and according to him, slums cause him embarrassment in front of his foreign friends. But till the time Arvind Kejriwal is CM of Delhi, we will not let the BJP demolish any house in the slums of Delhi,” the Delhi minister said.
She also alleged that the BJP-led DDA demolished the houses of 300 families in Sunder Nagar, leaving them ‘homeless in this spine-chilling cold.
“This is all happening because the PM doesn’t like slums. He is ashamed of the slums in front of his foreign friends. That is why he wants to get rid of jhuggis in Delhi,” she added