Tina Dabi Confronted For Demolishing Pak Hindu Migrants’ Homes; BJP targeted Rajasthan government

New Delhi: IAS officer Tina Dabi is facing backlash for issuing orders for the demolition of houses of Pakistani Hindu migrants on government land in Rajasthan’s Jaisalmer. The houses of Pakistani Hindu migrants living in Amar Sagar area, about 4 km from Jaisalmer district headquarters, were demolished following the orders of Dabi, who is currently the District Collector of Jaisalmer.

Over 50 ‘kachha’ houses, where over 150 women, men and children lived, were allegedly razed using bulldozers, following which Pakistani Hindu migrants protested by setting up tents outside Tina Dabi’s office .

One of the protesters said, “Our demand is that we should be resettled back to the same place or some other place.”

According to the administration, the displaced people were living on the banks of the Amar Sagar pond by building illegal houses, due to which the inflow of water into the pond had stopped.

Arrangements have been made for their stay and food in night shelters. However, so far no instructions have come from the state government regarding the rehabilitation of such Pakistani refugees who have not got Indian citizenship. So we can accommodate them. In temporary night shelters for the time being,” news agency IANS quoted Tina Dabi as saying.

Early last month, the Jodhpur Development Authority had razed around 200 structures, most of them belonging to migrants from Pakistan, during an anti-encroachment drive. A JDA official had said that more than 400 bighas of authority’s land in Rajiv Gandhi Nagar had been encroached on in the past and many structures had been built on it.

The official said it was a routine anti-encroachment drive to clear the JDA land from encroachment, but the residents got angry saying they had bought the land.

BJP slams Ashok Gehlot govt after houses of Pak Hindu migrants were demolished

Meanwhile, Leader of the Opposition in the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Rajendra Rathore on Wednesday termed the demolition of houses of Pakistani Hindu migrants as “appeasement politics” by the Ashok Gehlot-led Congress government. He said that the demolition of houses of Hindu refugees from Pakistan with bulldozers shows the ‘cruel attitude of the Congress government’.

In a video statement, Rajendra Rathore said, “After Jodhpur, the demolition of the homes of Hindu refugees in Jaisalmer is crossing the limits of cruelty of humanity.”

He also said that Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot should stop doing appeasement politics with Hindu refugees who returned to their land after being tortured by Pakistan.