Bulldozer action against influential persons, says min

REVENUE and Disaster Management Minister Suresh Pujari on Wednesday said establishments of the rich and the influential built illegally on government land will be razed using bulldozers, in what reminds of UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's brand of action to free encroached land.

- MAYANK PANI

Many influential individuals pretending to have a clean image have illegally occupied large tracts of government land and constructed huge palace like structures on them. "In the coming days, such establishments will be razed with bulldozers," he added during his visit to the city.

Pujari, however, said the homeless and poor would be spared. "I have often seen temporary establishments of the poor who occupy small patches of land to build a shanty are demolished. But they are not the real encroachers. They do it out of compulsion," the minister said.