Uttarakhand CM stated that the state government has already appealed to encroachers to remove such structures on their own or the administration will demolish them.
Encroachments in the name of "land jihad" will not be allowed to vitiate the atmosphere of Uttarakhand, Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami said on Friday, amid an ongoing statewide drive to remove illegally built structures from government land.
Addressing the concluding session of the two-day
Addressing the concluding session of the two-day meeting of the Vishva Hindu Parishad s (VHP) Kendriya Margadarshak Mandal in Haridwar, Dhami said, Uttarakhand shares its borders with two countries (China and Nepal). A particular community had illegally encroached land and raised structures in the border areas of the state which are being removed as part of a drive.