Karnataka Govt Defends Bengaluru Demolition; CPM MP A. A. Rahim Alleges 'Bulldozer Raj'

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A demolition drive in Bengaluru has ignited a political firestorm, with the city's civic body chief, Maheshwar Rao, stating the cleared land was an unsafe quarry area used for solid waste disposal. The action drew sharp criticism from Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, which Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah dismissed as politically motivated. Adding to the opposition, CPM MP A. A. Rahim condemned the move, stating, 'This is a bulldozer, Raj. Under the Congress regime, that is the news value and that is the political significance of this incident.' Rahim claims the displaced residents are legitimate Indian citizens with all necessary documents and that the government failed to follow the Supreme Court's directions on evictions. The controversy also involves accusations of 'minority appeasement' by the BJP against the Siddaramaiah government.

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00:00This now moves to the neighbouring state of Karnataka.

00:03The Bengaluru Civic Body issues clarification on the demolition of the homes in the city.

00:09Civic Body Chief Maheshwar Rao said that the land on which the drive was carried out

00:13is query land used for disposing of solid waste and is extremely unsafe for human habitation.

00:20He's added that the rehabilitation facilities have been arranged

00:23and eligible displaced persons will be considered for housing there.

00:28Meanwhile, the BJP has launched a scathing attack on the Congress over the comments made by KC Venugopal.

00:34The Safran Party accused the grand old party of running Karnataka from Delhi

00:39and called it a blatant overreach and an insult to federalism.

00:43Remember, the Congress leader had objected to the demolition drive and warned the Karnataka government

00:48that such actions should be taken with greater caution.

00:52Earlier, Kerala Chief Minister Pinaray Vijayan as well had criticised the very drive.

00:55Karnataka Chief Minister Sidramaya had hit back at Pinaray Vijayan

00:59saying that the Kerala Chief Minister's criticism was politically motivated.

01:25Karnataka Chief Minister Pinaray Vijayan as well has received an eye on a

01:38foreign request for women.

01:39It was been a long time for women at the parliament.

01:42it is not the question of minorities or other people or anything we don't want to affect

02:02anyone if anyone wants land were eligible definitely will give houses lacks of houses

02:07in banglore we have planned though the other governments could not plan we have planned

02:12already for that mr jami ramad my chief minister and all of them are on the on the talks with my

02:19officers how to rehabilitate them but who are jineen will rehabilitate but not who comes and

02:25try to occupy the government's land without any reasons so we'll do our job what has happened

02:31brutal in kerala is the murder of a dalit a dalit has been lynched in kerala i think the government

02:40there should concentrate on law and order within its state rather than worry about what we are doing

02:48we are well within the law we are well within our constitution norms to do what we have done

02:54appeasement politics we are hearing enough by sidramaya government rather than commenting

03:01on what kerala chief minister has said let chief minister takes let him take care of his government

03:06in kerala but whereas karnataka is concerned people are really fed up with the sidramaya government

03:12because of this minority appeasement politics just during assembly balagavi assembly session congress

03:19they wanted to bring in a new bill they were about to propose a new bill wherein illegal transportation

03:25of cows any state government for that matter they should not stoop to this level this is not only

03:32minority appeasement policies it is also hate hindu policies that has been followed by sidramaya government

03:41now it doesn't end there meanwhile the cpm mpa raheem hits back at the karnataka

03:46chief minister and his deputy over their comments against the kerala chief minister listening to

03:50what he had to say dk shulkumar and sidramaya has said that this is an internal matter of karnataka

03:58government why is the kerala government intervening in this that is not a justifiable explanation

04:05this is quite unfortunate actually this is not a karnataka state subject either the incident happened in

04:11karnataka no doubt but actually this is a bulldozer raj this is a bulldozer raj under the congress

04:19regime that is the news value and this is that is the political significance of this incident

04:25the karnataka government is saying that this was illegally encroached and the land was taken up

04:30the land belonged to the government how can people take up government land

04:34the two things are very important the first one is that all are documented land according to the

04:43according to the civil society groups working with them the second one is that i personally spoke to

04:50every um victims i could realize that i came to know that uh all of them having the karsana card all

05:00other id cards all are legitimate indian citizens so the government claim is that this is the illegal

05:11enforcement then a question is arising there is the is the model of is the model of uh rehabilitation

05:20is the model of eviction the honorable supreme court has been declared and circulated

05:28very well directive directions in this regard of the eviction so without notice in a very early morning

05:40the dk shivkumar and shindaramaya sends bulldozers to them the mark all are marginalized peoples

05:47all are marginalized peoples minorities and delits see the fakir groups fakir groups which means

05:55the kawali kawali kawali kawali kawali singers and some of them are burghese

06:03but at the same time they have all documents so government must rehabilitate very immediately

06:15very befitting and dignified rehabilitation

Karnataka Govt Defends Bengaluru Demolition; CPM MP A. A. Rahim Alleges 'Bulldozer Raj'

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