Watch | 'If You Demolish Our Homes, Where Will We Put the Tiranga?'

Name: Watch | If You Demolish Our Homes, Where Will We Put the Tiranga? - The Wire
Uploaded: 2022-08-12T14:09:42+05:30
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Description: As the nation gears up to celebrate 'Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav' on India's 75th Independence Day, the residents of two Delhi suburbs are fighting to keep their homes from being demolished.

As the nation gears up to celebrate 'Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav' on India's 75th Independence Day, the residents of two Delhi suburbs are fighting to keep their homes from being demolished.

Sumedha Pal

As the nation gears up to celebrate 'Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav' on India's 75th Independence Day, the residents of two Delhi suburbs are fighting to keep their homes from being demolished.

watch if you demolish our homes where will we put the tiranga

Residents of Delhi's Kasturba Nagar and Gyaspur clusters, which house the city's working class population, took to the streets and occupied the Delhi Development Authority's (DDA) office to demand an end to the demolition drives being undertaken by the authorities.

Around 600 residents of Gyaspur have been rendered homeless this week by the ongoing demolition drives, while homes in Kasturba Nagar are scheduled to be bulldozed on August 18.

Residents pointed out that they had been living in these homes for generations and the attempts to remove them are illegal and violate guidelines.

Given that these demolition drives have been taking place even as the Union government touts its 'Har Ghar Tiranga' campaign ahead of Independence Day, some protesters ask, "Where will we put the tiranga if our homes are razed?"

The Wire's Sumedha Pal reports from the DDA office to find out what the protesters have to say.

This article went live on August twelfth, two thousand twenty two, at nine minutes past two in the afternoon.

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