India News | Delhi BJP Chief Sachdeva Accuses CM Kejriwal of 'looting' Jal Board
Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. Amid the water shortage in the national capital, Delhi BJP president Virendraa Sachdeva accused Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal of "doing politics" in the name of water.
New Delhi [India], May 31 (ANI): Amid the water shortage in the national capital, Delhi BJP president Virendraa Sachdeva accused Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal of "doing politics" in the name of water.
"The scene of mothers and sisters of Delhi roaming for one drop of water is unbearable. If any one is responsible, then it is Arvind Kejriwal. He is doing politics in the name of water," Sachdeva told ANI.
Responding to Kejriwal's statement that he was feeling proud to go to jail to save the country from "dictatorship," the BJP leader said, "he should feel proud of looting" the Delhi Jal Board
"He should be feeling proud to have looted Delhi and turned Delhi into the city of liquor. He should feel proud to have provided government Hospitals with fake medicines, took his commission, and embezzled money by conducting duplicate tests in Mohalla clinics."
Meanwhile, Delhi's residents have complained of acute water shortage, even as the government set up a "war room" and promised "Har Ghar Jal".
Several areas in Delhi including Chanakyapuri's Sanjay Camp area and the Geeta colony area among those facing acute water shortages.
In the blazing heat, people wait in long queues, hoping to fill at least one bucket, as tankers come and go without adequately serving the large populations in the colonies.
The Delhi government on Friday approached the Supreme Court to get immediate additional water from neighbouring Haryana.
Rudal, a resident of the Geeta colony complained, "It has become a very big problem, only one tanker comes and the colony is so big. We have written two applications to the government but who listens to the poor? We have to buy the water to drink it. One bottle costs us 20 rupees".
Delhi government in its plea said that it is constrained to file the petition on account of the acute shortage of water being faced by the people of of Delhi, triggered by the ongoing severe heat conditions in North India, particularly in the national capital.
Delhi Water Minister Atishi on Friday wrote a letter to Union Minister of Jal Shakti Gajendra Shekhawat seeking his urgent intervention in the matter. Arvind Kejriwal made an appeal to the centre and the BJP to urge the governments of Uttar Pradesh and Haryana to help Delhi meet its water demand. (ANI)
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