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Bidhuri demands end to demolitions

Staff Reporter

Sheila Dikshit accused of being anti-rural

NEW DELHI: Charging the Sheila Dikshit Government with being anti-rural, the Nationalist Congress Party MLA and working committee member, Ramvir Singh Bidhuri on Tuesday said he had met Union Urban Development Minister Jaipal Reddy and demanded an end to the ongoing demolition drive in the Capital's rural Lal Dora areas and extended abadi of the villages with immediate effect.

Mr. Bidhuri said he had met Mr. Reddy on Monday evening and urged him to take steps to set in motion the process for regularisation of extended abadi areas so that lakhs of villagers living in such areas get relief and no longer feel the threat of bulldozers. He said he had informed Mr. Reddy that the 1963 notification of the Union Government did not allow demolitions in Lal Dora areas and whatever was happening there was not according to the law. He urged Mr. Reddy to intervene and save lakhs of villagers from being dislocated.

Addressing a press conference, Mr. Bidhuri said it was shocking that Congress leaders have ganged up now to withdraw the 1963 notification

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