00:00A mosque demolition drive was conducted in the Shalimar Bagh area in the national capital amid the presence of large
00:06police force.
00:07In fact, not just the mosque, some houses also surrounding the mosque were raised.
00:11So that's the news that's coming in. A demolition drive was carried out in Delhi's Shalimar Bagh area amidst a
00:17heavy police presence.
00:18Bulldozers were used to demolish the Medina Masjid and some nearby houses on the road leading to Max Hospital Shalimar
00:25Bagh.
00:25This road had previously undergone demolition work as part of a road widening project.
00:30Shoaib Jamai, the Delhi's state president of AIMIM, arrived at the site upon learning of the demolition of the mosque.
00:37Jamai termed the midnight demolition of the mosque unconstitutional, recalling a similar demolition in Saharanpur in Uttar Pradesh
00:45and vowed not to let Shalimar Bagh become Saharanpur Part 2 after the bulldozers operated under the cover of darkness.
00:53So this drive was conducted in the Shalimar Bagh area of the national capital and this was conducted yesterday, last
01:01night,
01:01when a mosque was raised and in fact also some of the nearby houses on the road leading to the
01:08Max Hospital, which is in Shalimar Bagh.
01:10Now this road had previously undergone demolition work as part of a road widening project.
01:14And now in the latest, one of the mosques and the nearby houses were also demolished yesterday.
01:21Now, politics has also erupted over this matter with the AIMIM saying that a similar incident happened in Saharanpur also
01:29in Uttar Pradesh
01:30and they will not let Shalimar Bagh become Saharanpur Part 2.
01:59And my colleague Himanshu Mishra is now joining us with more details on this.
02:03Shalimar Baghdad Demolition Drive, why did you conduct a demolition drive? What was the basis? What was the basis? What
02:08was the basis of this mosque? What was the proper notice?
02:11What was the notice of this mosque?
02:18If you look at this area, the city will be seen in the front of you.
02:21The city will be seen in the front of you.
02:23But before you look at it, you will see demolition drive.
02:28This whole road will look like demolition drive.
02:32You will have to turn this road to the city.
02:34The demolition drive has started here.
02:38The process is going to be further.
02:41The entire area is going to be further.
02:47which were encroached, they had to destroy them.
02:51This was in Medina Masjid, there was no demolition.
02:55But when it was here, when it was here,
03:01it was in the civic agency, there was a notice to be given.
03:04But the Masjid Committee has said that there was a lot of time not given.
03:09The first notice to be given, then the second notice to be given,
03:13and then the third notice to be given.
03:15The process is done with the notice, but it was very quickly that he didn't get the time to keep
03:24his business in the right direction.
03:27And the process is done with the right direction, which is the two floor you can see, which is the
03:35lenter, which is the demolition drive, which is the demolition drive, which is the demolition drive, which is not going
03:43to happen.
03:44But the civic agencies have said that this demolition drive is happening on the whole road.
03:51It's going to be done.
03:52And whatever encroachment will be removed.
03:57Yes.
03:59Himanshu, thank you very much for all your knowledge.
04:01So that is the situation in Shalimar Bagh.
04:04Remember this demolition drive did not begin yesterday.
04:07It has been going on for months now.
04:09There was a lot of outrage against Chief Minister Rekha Gupta also
04:12because Shalimar Bagh is her constituency.
04:15And the locals were saying that we had high hopes from Rekha Gupta.
04:21But this demolition drive is being conducted in her very own constituency.
04:26So there was a lot of outrage.
04:27And this is a part of a road widening project.
04:30That is why in the latest mosque has been raised and also some nearby houses.
04:35In fact, my colleague Harshit Mishra was at the spot when this demolition drive was being carried out.
04:43Listen in.
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