New Delhi: There's a new twist to the operation demolition in the capital. Chief Minister Shiela Dixit wants the urban development ministry to bring an Ulhasnagar kind of ordinance to stop the demolitions.
All this while she mantained that the drive to bring down about 30-lakh unauthorised structures will go on.
But ever since she found her and half her cabinet in the list of offenders, there seems to be a change of heart.
The letter has the support of the entire Delhi cabinet. However, the Urban Devleopment Ministry has raised a technical problem.
Urban Devleopment Minister, Jaipal Reddy says that might not be possible. "Since a Parliament session has been called, it's difficult to get the ordinance promulgated," says he.
Shiela's friend turned foe Ajay Maken who's just taken charge as Minister of State, Urban Development, predictbly is out to make her life more difficult.
"Ordinances like these are not answers to such complex problems of Delhi and Delhi cannot be another Ulhasnagar," says Maken.
And the peoples action group feels that bringing in an ordinance now will be unfair to people whose housed have already been buldozed.
President People's Action, Sanjay Kaul says, "When the bulldozers moved towards MG Road, nobody had a problem but the moment the CM's residence is about to be targeted, it gets a showcause notice. We get an ordinance and talk about how to stop everything."
Jaipal Reddy has made it clear that though minor offenders should be excused, he is in no mood to spare the big fish. So will the bulldozers stop any time soon? We'll really have to wait and watch.
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