WHAT one witnessed at Mahapanchayat at Raj Ghat on February 5,2006,orgasnised by the Delhi Gram Sabha, can be safely inferred that the Delhi Congress is running downhill. As Delhi village people assembled at the Mahapanchayat openly lambasted Congress leaders, and not to miss this opportunity, other parties have joined the bandwagon of anti-demolition drive t o enhance their profiles in Delhi.
The Mahapanchayat was attended by many Delhi Congress leaders, including the Delhi Pradesh Congress president Ram Babu Sharma, JD (U) president, Sharad Yadav, NCP MLA, Rambir Singh Bidhuri, Rashtriya Lok Dal president Ajit Singh and Kisan Sangh leader, Mahendra Singh Tikait.
Delhi Congress paraded full strength at Mahapanchayat, but were shocked when their attempt to portray the Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit as the wrecker-in-chief of Delhi’s villages cut no ice with thousands of villagers. They warned them not to shed crocodile tears as the Congress led governments both at the Centre and in Delhi besides the Municipal Corporation of Delhi dominated by the same party are not doing anything to stop the demolition drive in Lal Dora areas.
The mood in the audience was, however, anti-Congress with banners calling Dikshit, a bulldozer chief minister. The audience also humbled the DPCC president, as he was not allowed to deliver his speech with angry villagers heckling him.
The villagers challenged the Congress MLAs and MPs from Delhi to resign from their memberships if they were really with them. Interestingly, Janata Dal (United) president, Sharad Yadav touch a chord with the villagers as he took on the Congress leadership for letting down the villagers. He wondered how come a section of Congress is cooking stories against its own government at Delhi for the demolition drive in pace of doing something concrete to stop the drive.
While attacking the Delhi Chief Minister Dikshit, they accused her hand in glove with the builder’ mafia.
The Congress leaders, however, harped on he large heartedness of the Congress president Sonia Gandhi and tried to put the Delhi Chief Minister in the dock. But the restless villages had enough of such talks. The farmer leader Mahendra Sing Tikait compared the politicians to eunuchs and told the villagers that they were always trained to be the same, With the Rashtriya Lok Dal president, Ajit Singh in tow with Tikait apart from Sharad Yadav it became clear the village-based politics is getting fresh lease of life and the demolition drive in Delhi may just be a precursor for the larger political battle to unfold.
NCP MLA form Delhi, Rambir Singh Bidhuri said, “The Delhi Government is hell bent to destroy the prosperity of the villagers, hence the CM encouraged the Bhagidari people to file public litigation in the Delhi High Court, which led to the demolition orders.”
Accusing the Chief Minister for demolition, he further said, “to divert the attention of people from the issued of electronic meter and water crisis, it is being done under th3e pressure of the Reliance chief, Anil Ambani.
Some villagers were witnessed murmuring that why the unauthorised buildings of the leaders are not demolished so far, only the general public is targeted till date. Moreso, the Delhi’s walled city has maximum unauthorised constructions and encroachments than the Lal Dora or other areas.
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