Terming as insensitive the court-ordered demolition of constructions along the banks of Yamuna, leaders of the Hindu and Sikh communities on Thursday announced they would re-build places of worship damaged in the drive.
The Delhi Sikh Gurudwara Management Committee will bear the cost of reconstruction of temples damaged in the drive, while the Akhil Bhartiya Sant Samiti (ABSS) will rebuild gurdwaras, DSGMC President Paramjit Singh Sarna said here.
Flanked by ABSS General Secretary Swami Hansdass, Sarna said the DSGMC and the ABSS will jointly re-build mosques and other places of worship damaged in the drive.
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Delhiites whose properties were razed by MCD during last years High Court-ordered demolition drive, has a fresh shock coming their way.
MCD plans to slap them with massive property tax bills including the costs incurred by the civic body in bringing down the illegal structures.
Our demolition squads spent hours breaking down unauthorised constructions. We deployed heavy machinery. Thousands of people whose properties were demolished are yet to pay us for all this. We will now add the demolition charges to their property tax bills, MCD commissioner K S Mehra told Hindustan Times.
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The Pakistani Taliban on the rampage in the Orakzai tribal agency on the Pak-Afghan border have displaced hundreds of Sikhs living in the area even before partition after they failed to pay a hefty amount of Rs 50 million as jizia -- a tax which the Muslim rulers of the sub-continent used to charge from the non-Muslim minority population as the protection money.
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BJP today vehemently opposed any move to return property in Jammu and Kashmir to visitors from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), who have claimed back their ancestral holdings.
"We strongly oppose any move to return the property under the Jammu and Kashmir Resettlement Act. Many of them had taken part in terrorism or fought wars against India as part of the Pakistani Army," BJP Deputy Leader in Lok Sabha V K Malhotra told reporters here.
There was neither any such provision in other parts of the country nor any "reciprocal" facilities for Hindus and Sikhs who had migrated to India from Pakistan,
The opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday opposed any move to return property in Jammu and Kashmir to inhabitants of Pakistan-held Kashmir who have staked claims to ancestral assets in the state.
"We strongly oppose any move to return property under the Jammu and Kashmir Resettlement Act," BJP MP V.K. Malhotra said here.
"Many of (the claimants) have taken part in terrorism or fought wars against India as part of the Pakistani army."
Malhotra pointed out that there was no such provision in other parts of the country.
"Even Hindus and Sikhs who migrated from Pakistan to India do not enjoy such
Following the blasts in Varanasi, a red alert has been declared in the Capital. PCR team and police pickets have been asked to be on guard all over the city.
Police chief K K Paul said more staff was being deployed at temples and marketplaces. "We also expect the citizens to inform us immediately in case they notice anything suspicious in their area," he said.
The Akshardham temple in east Delhi and the temples at Jhandewalan and Kalkaji have been identified as vulnerable targets. According to senior police officers, cops in civil clothes have been stationed at these places. The
