Rattled by communal violence and crushed by ‘bulldozer justice,’ poor Muslim families in Haryana state’s Nuh district say they have hit a dead-end in their own country.
A Muslim man standing on the debris of his home in North Indian state of Haryana. His home was bulldozed by the Haryana government, an act critics say was prejudiced. As India celebrates its 77th independence day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke on August 15 from the ramparts of Red Fort in New Delhi, paying homage to pre-independence freedom fighters and promising a bright future for 1.5 billion Indians.On August 8, 60-year-old Khurshidan sat under a tree, sobbing inconsolably.
The Haryana police detained dozens of men in the following days and demolished at least 1,208 properties, including homes, shops and kiosks as part of a popular trend in north Indian states run by the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party known as “bulldozer justice”. “We are supposed to submit all the details to the Punjab and Haryana High Court. Before that, I cannot tell you anything,” he says.
In much of India, the illegal construction boom has been ongoing for several decades as various economic and climate-related factors such as long droughts have provoked internal migration, changing the demographic makeup of urban centres and nearby areas. The migration of poor, landless people has led to the mushrooming of slums in cities like New Delhi and Mumbai.
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