Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal (L), Delhi BJP chief Adesh Gupta (R)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has demanded from the Arvind Kejriwal government in Delhi to change the Muslim names of at least 40 villages in the national capital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
BJP’s Delhi unit chief Adesh Gupta, who is leading his party’s ‘bulldozer’ campaign against encroachment by ‘Rohingyas and Bangladeshis’, has said that he will send a proposal to the government for changing the names of villages that symbolise a period of ‘slavery’.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Nobody wants to live with a mindset of slavery that these names denote. I have received requests from several villagers for changing the names of their villages,” he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to Gupta, BJP-ruled South MCD passed a resolution to change the name of village Mohammadpur to Madhavpuram but Delhi government is sitting over it and not approving it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Local BJP councillor Bhagat Singh Tokas got a resolution passed by the corporation and had the town planning department send a letter signed by all villagers to the Delhi government’s Urban Development department on December 9 last year,” he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“These 40 villages include Humayunpur, Yusuf Sarai, Masoodpur, Zamroodpur, Begumpur, Saidul Ajab, Fatehpur Beri, Hauz Khas, and Sheikh Sarai to name a few,” he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He said political parties playing appeasement politics have been unmasked because their vote bank is now being ‘bulldozed’.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Last Wednesday, BJP-ruled North MCD sent bulldozers to remove encroachment in the Jahangirpuri area, a day after Delhi BJP president wrote to its mayor asking for the demolition of ‘illegal structures’.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Violence and arson gripped Jahangirpuri earlier this month when Hindus and Muslims pelted stones and clashed with each other during a Hanuman Jayanti procession.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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