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Families rendered homeless aft the demolition of houses astatine Fakeer Colony in Kogilu Layout, Yelahanka, by authorities authorities connected December 20 marked Republic Day by holding a ‘Poor People’s Republic Day’ demonstration on Monday, highlighting their continuing request for rehabilitation and housing.
The families were promised that houses would be allotted to them by January 2 by Minority Welfare and Housing Minister B.Z. Zameer Ahmed Khan, but nary actions followed.
The programme was organised by a conjugation of commercialized unions, women’s groups, pupil organisations and progressive collectives.
Slum Mahila Sanghatane members requested residents to stay agreed and stressed the value of acquisition for children, while Dudiya Janara Vedike leaders referred to Dr. B.R. Ambedkar’s imaginativeness of equality enshrined successful the Constitution.
The members pointed out that even 77 years aft the Constitution came into force, its ideals had not reached marginalised communities and accused those successful powerfulness of undermining law values.
The Students’ Federation of India (SFI) leader Basavaraju criticised growing favoritism and said the law committedness of governance “of the people, by the people, for the people” was progressively being eroded.
The Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) leader Hanumantha Rao Havaldar criticised the government’s onshore policies, alleging that ample corporates were favoured while long-time residents were denied adjacent tiny plots for housing.
