Delhi BJP leaders meet Amit Shah
New Delhi Apr 20 PTI A group of leaders from the BJPs Delhi unit on Wednesday met Union Home Minister Amit Shah on a day the North Delhi Municipal Corporation carried out an anti-encroachment drive in violence-hit Jahangirpuri which was stopped on a Supreme Court orderBulldozers tore down several concrete and temporary structures close to a mosque in Jahangirpuri as part of an anti-encroachment drive by the BJP-ruled civic body days after the northwest Delhi neighbourhood was rocked by communal violenceThe Supreme Court had to intervene twice to stop the drive after it took cognizance of a petition filed by Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind against the demolitionBJPs Delhi unit president Adesh Kumar Gupta MLA Ramvir Singh Bidhuri party leader Manjinder Singh Sirsa were among those who met the home minister at his office at North BlockHowever the BJP leaders were tight-lipped about the issues they discussed with ShahOfficials said the recent violence at Jahangiripuri and the Wednesdays demolition drive might have figured at the meetingDelhis all three municipal corporations which were now merged into one were ruled by the BJPThe anti-encroachment drive continued for one-and-a-half hours even after the Supreme Court directed authorities to stop itThe drive continued because of the absence of a written order from the Supreme Court It was stopped as soon as the order was received a civic official saidThe Supreme Court directed the apex court Secretary-General to convey the earlier order to stop demolition in the riots-hit Jahangirpuri here to the NDMC Mayor and the Delhi Police Commissioner immediatelySo far the Delhi Police arrested over 20 people in connection with the clashes that erupted during a procession on the occasion of Hanuman Jayanti last week The stringent National Security Act was also slapped against five of the arrested people PTI ACB ACB TDS TDS TDS
New Delhi Apr 20 PTI A group of leaders from the BJPs Delhi unit on Wednesday met Union Home Minister Amit Shah on a day the North Delhi Municipal Corporation carried out an anti-encroachment drive in violence-hit Jahangirpuri which was stopped on a Supreme Court orderBulldozers tore down several concrete and temporary structures close to a mosque in Jahangirpuri as part of an anti-encroachment drive by the BJP-ruled civic body days after the northwest Delhi neighbourhood was rocked by communal violenceThe Supreme Court had to intervene twice to stop the drive after it took cognizance of a petition filed by Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind against the demolitionBJPs Delhi unit president Adesh Kumar Gupta MLA Ramvir Singh Bidhuri party leader Manjinder Singh Sirsa were among those who met the home minister at his office at North BlockHowever the BJP leaders were tight-lipped about the issues they discussed with ShahOfficials said the recent violence at Jahangiripuri and the Wednesdays demolition drive might have figured at the meetingDelhis all three municipal corporations which were now merged into one were ruled by the BJPThe anti-encroachment drive continued for one-and-a-half hours even after the Supreme Court directed authorities to stop itThe drive continued because of the absence of a written order from the Supreme Court It was stopped as soon as the order was received a civic official saidThe Supreme Court directed the apex court Secretary-General to convey the earlier order to stop demolition in the riots-hit Jahangirpuri here to the NDMC Mayor and the Delhi Police Commissioner immediatelySo far the Delhi Police arrested over 20 people in connection with the clashes that erupted during a procession on the occasion of Hanuman Jayanti last week The stringent National Security Act was also slapped against five of the arrested people PTI ACB ACB TDS TDS TDS
