Why Maneka Gandhi says Delhi- NCR could face 1880s Paris-style problems if stray dogs are removed

The directive of removing and placing all the street dogs of the Supreme Court from the streets of Delhi-NCR triggered a fiery discussion on whether the movement was realistic or wise. On Monday, the court ordered all the street dogs to be immediately removed from the public spaces in Delhi, Guru, Noida and Ghazabad.

Following the decision, former Minister of Union and Animal Rights activist Maneka Gandhi called the order, called the ecological balance of the region as “non -practical”, olmaz financially not livable ”and“ potentially harmful ”.

He warned about unwanted results by saying that the removal of stars could cause new problems. “Within 48 hours, three lakh dogs will come from Faridabad Ghaziabad, because there is food in Delhi. And after removing the dogs, the monkeys will come to the ground … I saw this in my own house.”
Reminding a historical example, Gandhi referred to Paris in the 1880s: “When they removed dogs and cats, the city was invaded with rats,” he said the dogs as “rodent control animals”.

What exactly happened in Paris in the 1880s?

At the end of the 19th century, street dogs wandered many Paris and were often seen as dangerous donors of rabies, fleas and filth. The city administration saw them as cleaning, public health and security threat.

In the 1880s, a large -scale lifting and in some cases the massacre was carried out in order to prevent Jerusalem and to “modern and secure the French capital. Although the historical record on cats is less open for this period, it is believed that the removal of dogs because of an important natural control over rodents of animals causes an unexpected increase in the city’s rats population. Modern Paris was built in 1883, the pharmacist Emile Capron claimed that they caused the removal of Strayings and caused the defendants. However, there is no definite evidence of the simultaneous large -scale killing of the cat. In Paris, the idea of “Cat Massacre” has its own history. Historian Robert Darnton wrote about the 1984 The Great Cat Massacre and a terrible event in other chapters in French cultural history. This was based on a group of print apprentices in Paris to torture cats and an activity from the 1730s, torture cats to protest against working conditions. Today, according to history, the chapter was part of a strange persecution, social interpretation and dark humor mixture reflecting the tensions of time.Inputs from agencies