BJP seeks Meeting session to debate Delhi water disaster, blames AAP govt | India Information

The BJP on Saturday demanded that the Delhi Meeting speaker name a particular session of the Home to debate the prevailing “water disaster” within the metropolis that IT blamed on the AAP authorities’s “mismanagement”.

BJP Chief Whip within the Delhi Meeting, Ajay Mahawar, in a letter to Speaker Ram Niwas Goel, mentioned the entire of Delhi is combating a water scarcity amid unprecedented warmth and the individuals are devastated as a result of authorities’s “water mismanagement”.

“IT is requested of you to right away name a particular session of the Delhi Meeting to debate and discover a resolution to this disaster and supply aid to the folks from this catastrophe brought on by mismanagement of the Delhi authorities and the Delhi Jal Board,” Mahawar mentioned in his letter.

He claimed that some particular classes had been held prior to now to debate “pointless” points whereas urgent for calling a particular session on the water scarcity.

BJP Delhi unit chief Virendra Sachdeva additionally demanded that the speaker name a particular session of the meeting on the issues confronted by folks as a result of water scarcity.

The nationwide capital has been grappling with a water scarcity, with Delhi Water Minister Atishi blaming Haryana for not releasing Yamuna water to town.

The acute scarcity has turn into an “existential downside” in Delhi, the Supreme Courtroom noticed on Thursday and directed the Himachal Pradesh authorities to launch 137 cusecs of surplus water to the nationwide capital and Haryana to facilitate its circulate.

The highest court docket additionally mentioned there must be no politics over water.

 

The BJP’s newly-elected South Delhi MP Ramvir Singh Bidhuri mentioned water from Himachal Pradesh reaches Delhi in 48 hours however Atishi was creating noise inside a number of hours and accusing Haryana.

“Atishi is constantly mendacity that Haryana is just not releasing Delhi’s share of water whereas IT has been confirmed within the Supreme Courtroom by the Haryana authorities that IT is constantly offering water to Delhi, as per the settlement,” he mentioned.

Atishi is aware of that IT takes at the least 48 hours for the water to succeed in Delhi from Himachal Pradesh however she began making a fuss inside 12 hours of the highest court docket’s order, claiming the water launched from the hill state had not reached the nationwide capital and that Haryana had stopped the water, he alleged.

Atishi falsely accused Haryana of not releasing water primarily based on the Yamuna’s stage as on June 2. The Supreme Courtroom’s determination got here on June 6 and the water is predicted to succeed in Delhi by June 8, he mentioned.

Bidhuri claimed that the reality is that even after the water from Himachal Pradesh reaches Delhi, the “thirst” of the folks of the nationwide capital can’t be quenched as a result of town authorities has not organized for treating that water.

For the previous a number of days, Atishi has been falsely accusing the Haryana authorities of not offering Delhi its share of water primarily based on the Yamuna’s stage, Bidhuri mentioned.

She is aware of that the Haryana authorities has an settlement underneath the Yamuna Accord to launch a specific amount of water, to not keep the water stage of the Yamuna, however Atishi has by no means talked about how a lot much less water is being launched whereas at all times referring to the Yamuna’s water stage, he added.

First Printed: Jun 08 2024 | 5:50 PM IST