"No Poor's Home Will Be Razed": Akhilesh Yadav's Swipe At Yogi Adityanath
Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh: Following the Supreme Court’s Wednesday verdict slamming ‘bulldozer justice’ and calling it unconstitutional, Samajwadi Party Chief Akhilesh Yadav welcomed the judgement. Taking a dig at the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh, he said that the bulldozer will remain in the garage now.
During his rally at Sisamau Assembly constituency in Kanpur, the Kannauj MP thanked the top court’s government. Calling the bulldozer a “symbol” of the UP government, Yadav said, “What to expect from people who break homes? At least, their bulldozer will remain in garage. No poor’s home will be razed.”
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Referring to lines by poet Pradeep that the top court included in its judgement, the SP chief said there “cannot be a stronger criticism of the government.” The lines translate to “Everyone dreams for a home, a person wants to hold on to the dream of a home.”
While hearing petitions challenging bulldozer action against people accused of a crime, a bench of justices comprising B R Gavai and K V Viswanathan said that the Executive cannot replace the Judiciary. The court stated that it is unconstitutional to demolish a person’s house without following due process of law merely because they are allegedly accused of a crime.
Calling the top court’s verdict a “welcome relief,” AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi said, “Hopefully they will prevent state governments from collectively punishing Muslims & other marginalised groups. We should remember that no less than PM Narendra Modi has celebrated bulldozer raj, which SC today called “a lawless state of affairs.”
The #Bulldozer judgement of the Supreme Court is a welcome relief. The most important part of it is not in its eloquence, but the enforceable guidelines. Hopefully they will prevent state governments from collectively punishing Muslims & other marginalised groups.
We should…
— Asaduddin Owaisi (@asadowaisi) November 13, 2024
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Known as ‘bulldozer justice,’ the trend caught on in several states but is most prominent in Uttar Pradesh. The state government’s frequent use of bulldozer action gave CM Yogi Adityanath the ‘bulldozer baba’ tag. While the state government claimed that only illegal properties were demolished, several petitioners flagged the extrajudicial nature of the actions by state authorities.
