Old Rajinder Nagar spotlights India’s moth-eaten law book
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Delhi’s triumvirate power centres feed on subversion of laws
By Manish Anand
New Delhi, July 29: Shreya Yadav, 25, had paid ₹1.65 lakh to gain admission at Rau’s IAS in the Old Rajinder Nagar in Delhi. Her body was found after four hours since the flash flooding of the basement library of the coaching institute.
Durgesh Pathak was an IAS aspirant when politics pulled him out of the basement libraries in the Old Rajinder Nagar. He is an MLA from the Rajinder Nagar Assembly constituency.
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) picked up Pathak to bolster the party’s claim for an alternative politics. Pathak symbolised the political empowerment of the commoners.
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Under his watch, hundreds of coaching institutes and private libraries were running from basements. Delhi building bylaws forbid any activity other than storage or parking in basements.
A complaint by an IAS aspirant against flouting of norms by the coaching institutes in the Old Rajinder Nagar area was unattended by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD). The civic body woke up to seal the basement operations after three youngsters met their watery graves on Saturday evening.
Vinai Kumar Saxena inherited the political legacy of his predecessors to nibble at the sanctity of the elected government in the national capital. Saxena reveals as a saviour when a crisis hits national capital, and afterwards he becomes administratively comatose.
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A year ago, the Central Delhi was flooded which led to the submergence of Raj Ghat, the resting place of Mahatma Gandhi. The ‘Father of the Nation’ witnessed first-hand the moth-eaten law book of the country 75 years after Independence.
The National Disaster Relief Force (NDRF) personnel had dived to de-clog a major drain near the ITO to give a temporary relief from submergence of the ITO and the adjoining areas. The bravado afterwards was that it will never again be repeated.
A month ago, the privileged parliamentarians woke up to see their precious carpets floating in their drawing rooms. The sprawling bungalows of the neta were flooded.
Saxena told the Congress MP, Shashi Tharoor, that “it will never again be repeated”. Indeed, he passed the buck to the city administration that had not cleaned the drains.
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Delhi Minister Sourabh Bhardwaj showed state of helplessness of the elected government in the city. Direction to clean the drains was issued a year ago, but officials refused to act. The minister accused corruption in the work of desilting of drains.
Delhi, evidently, shows the curse of amnesia to forget disaster until the next strikes. The Old Rajinder Nagar tragedy too will be forgotten. Basements will again be at the heart of Delhi’s illegitimate businesses.
Triumvirate of the power centres in the national capital has too thick skins to be affected by deaths of three youngsters. Neta-babu nexus in Delhi may be too lucrative businesses to restore the sanctity of the moth-eaten law book.
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