During the last demolition drive, a slum dweller allegedly called the then local bodies minister Chaudhary Jagjit Singh and the then Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee president Shamsher Singh Dullo in front of the mediapersons. Dullo had then openly supported the dwellers.

Though no leader turned up today at the site of the demolition, certain members of the protesting side claimed the slums cannot be demolished. Though there were many who claimed that they were poor people and had no other place to go, some of them could be seen with fancy mobile phones and motorbikes.

Records of the Improvement Trust state that the demolition drive on the then 400 slums here was first conducted in 1991 nearly 90 per cent of them demolished.

By 2006, their number grew to 700 and in the same year nearly 30 per cent of them were demolished again. The number has now gone up to 1,000 and the green belts have also been encroached. While majority of the dwellers rear pigs in these slums itself, a few work in the corporation, have their own rehris, meat business or work as domestic helps. The residents of the area are now skeptical if the authorities would be able to demolish the slums.