On 6 December 2015, a joint march was called by CPI, CPI (M), CPI (ML) and CPI (Punjab) against growing communal intolerance and also against the continued demolition drives in Chandigarh even in this cold winter season. Hundreds of people on foot, bikes and auto rickshaws participated in the joint march. Besides protesting against the growing communalism and intolerance, the march jointly called by the left also demanded that the Chandigarh administration immediately stop its demolition drive in this cold winter. Only recently, On 3rd and 4th December, the administration had demolished 500 shanties of poor people secretly. The announcement regarding demolition was made in the night and the demolition carried out in the morning, denying any chance to the poor people to organize resistance. Comrades visited two such demolition sites during the 6th December march and expressed solidarity with people who had been rendered homeless. Comrades from CPI (ML) also independently visit another site in the form of caravan, where the administration is likely to start demolition a few days later. More than five hundred houses are in this area and the people living here have expressed willingness to start a struggle under the leadership of CPI (ML). The CPI (ML) leaders will meet the advisor to the Union territory of Chandigarh to pursue the matter of ending demolition.
