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Medha's fast enters eighth day; Aruna requests
Sonia to end impasse
Thursday April 11, 2013 03:22:59 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: Social
activist Aruna Roy Thursday sought the help of United Progressive
Alliance chairperson Sonia Gandhi to end the fast undertaken by
activist Medha Patkar in Mumbai to protest the demolition of
slums.
"I want to reiterate the urgency of this matter, given both the
democratic imperative and in light of Medha's failing health and
thus request your immediate personal intervention in this matter,"
Aruna Roy said, in a letter to Sonia Gandhi released to the media.
According to Roy, union Minister of Housing and Urban Poverty
Alleviation Ajay Maken requested Maharashtra Chief Minister
Prithviraj Chavan to intervene in the matter and ensure that slum
dwellers are not evicted, in violation of the existing policy of
in-situ development and resettlement.
"In light of Medha's failing health and the undeniable
constitutional and moral imperative to resolve this issue in a
democratic manner, I wrote to Chavanji to request that a process
of dialogue with Ghar Bachao Andolan be immediately initiated,"
Roy said in her letter to Sonia Gandhi.
Slum demolitions, in violation of the government's policy against
forced slum evictions... do incalculable damage to the public
perception of the UPA government as an advocate of the "aam aadmi",
Roy said in her letter.
On Thursday, Patkar's indefinite hunger strike against the
eviction of slum dwellers from the Golibar area of Mumbai entered
the eighth day, and there are reports that her health is
deteriorating. She has complained of backache and nausea.
Patkar has alleged corruption and "atrocities" by builders in the
city's slum rehabilitation scheme, and called for the halting of
six projects by the Slum Rehabilitation Authority, until a proper
inquiry is conducted.
Meanwhile, many people, including slum dwellers, are taking part
in relay fasts at the Golibar ground, in solidarity with Patkar.
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