Key Highlights
- Narasimha Murthy, convenor, Slum Janandolana, Karnataka, said that they were shocked at how the entire issue had been hijacked and turned into a ‘Hindu-Muslim’, ‘Kannada-migrant’ issue.
- “It is the poor and homeless, who, left with no option but to put up shacks in landfill land, were ruthlessly driven out from there as well.
- Anything else is a diversion from this core issue,” he said, adding the politicisation was hitting the welfare and the rights of the residents who lost houses.
- “Now the decision to allot them flats is so bitterly contested; there are PILs filed against it.
- The government has also been delaying the allotment, which it had promised to complete the process on January 1,” he said.
