<h1>Opposition leader alleges ruling party used demolitions to displace Dalits, backward classes and poor while gifting land to allies</h1> A national opposition leader alleges that the ruling party in a state employed demolitions targeting Dalits, backward classes and the poor while allocating large tracts of land to business associates at negligible cost. He claims over 400 homes in a slum were razed as 'illegal' despite residents holding identity and utility records and, in some instances, court stay orders. The statement accuses the ruling party of undermining democratic institutions to appropriate state assets and of systemic rights violations through dispossession and preferential land transfers to private interests.