By Tenzin Dickyi
Delhi – From the last few months the residents of Majnu-ka-Tilla, Tibetan refugee settlement in Delhi are tensed and stressed out due to the demolition. The settlement has been served a court notice informing them of the need to demolish all structures that comes within the area designated for the expansion of the highway and the Delhi government’s much-publicized project for cleaning and beautification of the Yamuna river area.
Till now Mrs.Gyari Dolma, vice chairperson of the exile Tibetan parliament, Assembly of Tibetan People’s Deputies (ATPD) along with many other senior Tibetan officials have presented themselves in front of the Delhi High court couple of times to see the possibilities of safeguarding the demolition.
‘Mr. N.K. Sharma and Mrs. Rekha Sharma, the recently appointed judges in place of Mr. Vijander Kumar to handle the Eviction order of Majnu-ka-Tilla can be of trouble to the Tibetans in resolving this problem’, feels Gyakpon Phuntsok Rinchen of Samyeling (MT). ‘This morning when the Tibetan officials appeared in the High Court, the responses from these two judges were not so appealing. Mr. N.K. Sharma said that the Tibetans should be relocated to some other hygienic place. But hopes and efforts are still in full swing to safe the Tibetan residents out from the problem of demolition threat’, he adds.
The Tibetan officials will appear again in the Court in February though dates have not yet been fixed.
