By Sushil Kutty
Delhi these days is synonymous with demolitions, thanks to Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta, who is a zealot when it comes to following Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s diktats hook, line and sinker! And Rekha Gupta, while bulldozing and razing ugly slums to the ground, is also taking ‘Operation Sindoor’ to lakhs and lakhs of women residents of the national capital, a ‘pinch of sindoor’ each.
But what of the housewives of Delhi’s slums? Today, Delhi has the most number of homeless in the entire country after Rekha Gupta’s bulldozers took their run of Delhi and the news went to all of India’s corners including to Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin and thousands upon thousands of families strewn across north, south, east and west India, families with sons and daughters and uncles and aunts, whose “Delhi jhuggi” no longer existed after being levelled to the ground for a clean-clean Delhi.
This was the task given to Chief Minister Rekha Gupta by none other than Prime Minister Narendra Modi. As if Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s bulldozers were not enough! Rekha Gupta’s bulldozer action and bulldozer justice is the talk of the town. There is also the threat of Yogi’s bulldozers landing up in the Jamia and Batla House localities of Delhi and it won’t be “jhuggi-jhopri” but four-, five- and six-stories of steel and concrete which will be targeted.
There was the illegal settlement of ‘Madrasi Camp’ in the Jangpura legislative constituency of former Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia which was razed to the ground by Gupta’s bulldozers, five to six bulldozers brought to the “spot” by MCD officials backed by force courtesy the Delhi Police. ‘Operation Madrasi Camp’ started early and by 11 am there were only mounds of debris with women crying and cursing Prime Minister Modi and Chief Minister Rekha Gupta.
The anti-Modi and anti-Gupta curses aren’t palatable for human ears; they spoke of a quick end to not only Modi and Gupta but also to the Rekha Gupta government of Delhi along with the promise that Modi can “forget Tamil Nadu”, the BJP will never score in the southern state not even with K Annamalai to help. News has reached the ears of the right people in Chennai and Chief Minister MK Stalin has offered ousted Madrasi Camp “refugees” all the help from Tamil Nadu.
Rekha Gupta’s bulldozers are on mission-mode and ‘Operation Clean-up Delhi’ is on a war-footing, rivalling Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘Operation Sindoor’. News escaping the grapevine says Modi and Rekha Gupta won’t stop till they’re through every slum cluttering the Delhi landscape. Spic and span, clean and well-looked after! Just like Chief Minister Rekha Gupta’s residence in Delhi and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s 7, Lok Kalyan Road home.
They say and perhaps rightly so that Prime Minister Narendra Modi wants his guests from abroad — heads of state, like prime ministers and presidents and the odd dictator — to see a clean and hunky dory Delhi. Prime Minister Modi didn’t like an entire stretch of road lined with a curtain when President Trump was in Gujarat and the G20 Summit in Delhi also saw a similar “cover-up”. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s India cannot have a capital city with “warts and all”.
So Chief Minister Rekha Gupta is bent on delivering to the Prime Minister a clean-clean Delhi — east, west, north and south. Some of the suddenly homeless have been provided with alternative “homes”, but they’re far off from Lutyens Delhi where they had squatted from the time of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. The children’s schooling has been disrupted and the jobs have outdistanced their lives by the “miles and miles before we sleep” syndrome.
All in all, life has become topsy-turvy for tens of thousands of Delhi’s electorate and their families, people who allege Prime Minister Modi is an “unbeatable conman” who had promised to them “Jahan jhuggi wahan ghar” and they had stupidly and foolishly fallen for his tricks of the trade. The enormity of “fraud” played on them by the BJP, they say, is mind-boggling. As for Chief Minister Rekha Gupta, “we haven’t set eyes on such a woman, ever” is the verdict! That the judiciary is with Chief Minister Rekha Gupta doesn’t cut ice. (IPA Service)
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