80% Delhi Illegal, Will You Raze It All?: Kejriwal Breaks Silence on MCD Drives

He said that the BJP-led MCD planned to carry out the biggest destruction in independent India.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday, 16 May, broke his silence on the anti-encroachment drives that are being conducted in the national capital and said that the BJP-led Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) planned to carry out the biggest destruction in independent India.

"The way BJP is destroying people's houses and shops in Delhi, it is not right. Bulldozers can run on the shops or houses of 63 lakh people. This will be the biggest destruction of independent India," he said, adding that the BJP planned to demolish all of Delhi's unauthorised colonies.

"More than 80 percent of Delhi can be considered built on encroached land. Will 80 percent of Delhi be destroyed? And the manner in which these anti-encroachment drives are being conducted - no papers, no one is being given a chance... they just reach a colony with a bulldozer and start demolishing anyone's home or shop."

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal