Rahul Gandhi Completes Four Month Long Peace March
The Bharat Jodo Yatra peace march led by Rahul Gandhi seems to have opened a tiny door for many people to escape the prevailing political uncertainty and to vent their frustration at BJP rule.
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Muslim Families Face Home Demolitions in Uttarakhand
Residents across Banbhoolpura region of the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand are holding candlelight marches, sit-ins, and collective prayers to resist a High Court order authorizing the demolition of over 4,500 homes, ostensibly to make room for a railway. Behind this legal battle, some critics believe there lay political motives aimed at sweeping away the Muslim minority.
Punitive Demolition of Homes and Evictions in India
The latest report of the Housing and Land Rights Network on forced evictions in India has pointed to the new disturbing trend of “demolitions as a punitive measure” by various state governments.
Delhi Housing for Rohingya Refugees Quashed
Hours after India Housing Minister Hardeep Singh Puri announced that Rohingya refugees from Myanmar would be provided apartments in the Bakkarwala area of outer Delhi, the Home Ministry denied that any such policy had been decided. By the same evening, Puri reversed himself.
US Farmers Declare Solidarity with Protesters in India
US farmers and food justice advocates have published a statement of solidarity with Indian farmers who are protesting unpopular new laws and “the forces of neoliberalism” imposed at the prompting of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s far right, Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party
