By TCN News,
New Delhi: After visiting the riot-hit Trilokpuri area, a delegation of CPI (M) and CPI has demanded from the Delhi government culprits be brought to book, register FIRs against those who burnt shops and pay adequate compensation to affected people.
The joint delegation of CPI (M) & CPI leaders met the area residents affected during the recent communal violence, which started on the night of Diwali. More than 40 people were named in three separate FIRs while 14 were detained for making hoax calls in the wake of trouble that had started in the locality on Diwali night. Subsequent police action, even on the second day, had seen scores of people injured in police action apart from loss and damage to property.
The delegation comprised Mohd. Salim, MP, CPI(M), Subhashini Ali, Jogendra Sharma, P M S Grewal, all central committee members, CPI(M), Anurag Saxena, East Delhi District secretary, P I Ravindranathan, Maimoona Mollah, Ram Kanwar, Imran Ahmed, Trilokpuri branch secretary, CPI(M) and Dhirendra Sharma, secretary, CPI Delhi state council, Dinesh Varshney, assistant secretary, CPI Delhi state council, Dr. Kair Singh, secretary, CPI East Delhi council along with local party activists, a release from Saxena said.
“The delegation visited the affected site in block 20 where the Mata ki Choki still exists. Besides, we visited blocks 22, 26, 27, 28. The delegation spoke with over a hundred local residents who narrated their tales of horror. We found that 5 shops were gutted in the area, all belonging to the minority community. People from both sides of the divide mentioned two names who were instrumental in engineering the flare-up – BJP’s ex-MLA Sunil Vaid and Ram Charan Gujrati. In block 28, residents alleged that the hoodlums broke open the locks of shops and looted them,” the release said.
“The pattern that was clear from our discussion with the local people was polarization on communal lines. This is a well-planned strategy experimented by BJP time and again for their electoral advantage,” the delegation alleged.
Later, the delegation also met the DCP (East district) Ajay Kumar and the SHO at PS Mayur Vihar and discussed the steps taken against those responsible for instigation of communal conflagration and the subsequent communal violence. “When the delegation questioned the police about burning of the shops, the DCP maintained that the shop that got burnt on October 25 was an accident due to short circuit, while he was clueless about the other 4 shops,” the release added.
The delegation put up the following demands from the Delhi Government: the culprits be immediately brought to book – in particular those named by the local residents, namely Sunil Vaid and Ram Charan Gujrati; FIRs be registered against those who burnt shops; Assess the loss that the affected people have incurred during the riot; Adequate compensation be provided to the affected people and Adequate preventive measures be taken to ensure that no further incident takes place, the release added.