Mumbai, 30th of May. The desire of the administration to reduce the slums, settlements and the societies of the Khar(east) into ashes, ultimately went in vain. The unity of the inhabitants there and the support gained from all over the country including the hunger strike undertaken by the social activist Medha Patkar and her colleagues forced the mafia-builder-administration nexus to draw their steps back.
The afternoon of the last 28th May the entire area was filled with the slogans like ‘long live the revolution’,'will fight and win’ etc. when the chief secretary carrying the chief minister’s order visited the demonstration site to issue an order regarding the concern. Now the representatives of the civil society and the two committees of the state and administration will inspect the entire case and till the conclusion is drawn the slums and the societies cannot be bulldozed or erased. One among these two committees will inspect the Ganesh Kripa Society case while the other one is set to inspect the cases of the rest 15 slums along with the settlements and colonies.
It is a fact well known to all by now that in the past few days the collector had demolished near about 25 houses inspite of the chief minister’s order for not to take any such steps in Golibar Nagar. Even the CM has ordered an enquiry on the alleged corruption charges labelled against the ‘Sivalik Ventures’, the builder assigned with the redevelopment task in this matter. Still the alliance of local administration-mafia-builders was never far away to humiliate and harass the slums-settlements-societies here.
Four days prior to this date a written and recorded message was conveyed to the inhabitants of the Golibar on behalf of the Gorakhpur workers movement where in Pramod Kumar a leader of the Joint Workers’ Right Struggle Front from Gorakhpur asked the struggling masses of Golibar to remain united to ensure victory. While mentioning their struggle against the alliance of the owners-goons-leaders in Gorakhpur he also expressed the solidarity to the people of Golibar, on behalf of the Gorakhpur workers movement.
After ensuring victory for themselves, the people of Golibar too conveyed a message in solidarity to the Gorakhpur workers movement. A leader namely Prerna Gayekawad of the Golibar struggle asserted in her message that “we have won our struggle, now you have to continue your struggle. You should continue your struggle while we are always with you”.
Devan and Faiza from the Ganesh Kripa Society too sent a personalised message to the Gorakhpur workers movement where in they said “the inhabitants of the Ganesh Kripa Society condemns in their strongest words the repression of the workers movement in Gorakhpur by the corrupt officials and thus expresses their fullest solidarity to the movement. You should continue the fight and you shall overcome”.
To listen to the recorded message please click the following link.
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