Last January, in Haldwani district, over 4000 families took to streets to save their homes after being served eviction notice alleging they were illegally living on land owned by railways.
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The violence in Uttarakhand s Haldwani, which has left six dead and more than a hundred injured, including policemen, so far, has sparked off a bitter blame game, with BJP calling it a conspiracy and demanding strict action against the guilty, while Shiv Sena pinned it on the saffron party s polarisation tactics for electoral gains