Tag: Eviction Drive
Cleaner Streets, Emptier Homes: The Cost of West Bengal’s New Bulldozer Drive
Weeks after the new BJP government took office, a sweeping anti-encroachment drive across West Bengal has transformed bustling railway markets into demolition sites. From Jadavpur to Konnagar, midnight operations have left thousands of hawkers facing sudden eviction, sparking fierce protests and a profound constitutional crisis over the right to livelihood.
Bulldozers, Evictions and Fear: The Human Cost of Bengal’s New Governance
Just a month has passed since the new government came to power in West Bengal, but for many ordinary people, life already feels different.
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The Sound of Bulldozers and the Making of a New Bengal
BJP's demolition drives across Bengal signal the arrival of a politics where spectacle overtakes due process, and the urban poor increasingly become targets of governance shaped by exclusion, fear, and corporate expansion.