[Urbanstudy] Fw: Fwd: Urgent appeal

[Curt Gambetta]

Passing this on. If anyone in Delhi could reply (not to me, I cannot help! I think to anglingcircles at gmail.com and culture.communications at gmail.com), that would be great. I know some people are interested in moving forward with some kind of action on the matter, regarding the eviction described below.

Curt



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From: Dhritabrata BHATTACHARJYA Tato <culture.communications at gmail.com>


I am feeling helpless about the fact that hundreds of people got displaced along the canal from Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium up to Kidwai Nagar in the wake of the Commonwealth Games. As per the displaced people (who are mainly small time vegetable/fruits vendors/grocers, traders), there were not even given a notice in spite of them holding ration card and Election Commission of India's valid voter's identity card. More over they were told that they cannot exercise their voting rights either. When one of the vegetable seller called the EC office, he was told that his name got cancelled. 

I have very little knowledge about it. But I would like to know the following points from anybody:

1. How come the government decide that some citizens won't be able to vote even if they are legal citizens of this country?
2. Why this canal is going to become a  parking for hundreds of cars only for an event that is going to be there only for few days?
3. What is going to happen to the parking after the games?
4. Why are our poor citizens have to move out where they were  paying tax (electric bills, etc.) to the government?

Could you please do something about it? You can talk to one of them ( Shriram 9810889760, he spaeks in Hindi only).-- 
Dhritabrata Bhattacharjya Tato
New Delhi
9811922952
(prefix 0091 from abroad)


      
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