India has been divided on the recent bulldozer activity that has been carried out in the aftermath of the stone-pelting events across the country before the official visit of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Although the Supreme Court of India has issued a stay order on the demolition of unauthorised structures in various parts of the country, some reports say that this could be violated due to technicalities in the Supreme Court ruling.

The demolition of illegal structures in Delhi, Madhya Pradesh and some other parts of the country has been branded as a retaliatory activity by the BJP governments in these states after Ram Navami and Hanuman Jayanthi processions were pelted with stones by the Muslim community in these states. Although investigations on these incidents are still in progress, the local authorities have taken it upon themselves to dish out justice by using bulldozers to bring down so-called illegal structures to prevent miscreants from using them as a cover for such activities in the future.

Politician Brinda Karat was in the news recently as she tried to stop this activity by standing in front of a bulldozer until the SC stay order was implemented. Regarded as an opportunity to score a few political brownie points for the almost irrelevant Communist Party of India, she was the only politician from the opposition parties to hit the streets against the order.

With the Supreme Court stay order putting a stop to the activity, various other groups both religious and political have come out and started taking sides in this conflict that is set to be another one to give more fuel to the ongoing minority vs majority debate that has plagued the nation in recent times. Any activity that happens in the country is first analysed through this lens before looking into any other aspect or future potential.

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