Residents in quite a few sectors of Delhi continued grappling with water shortages on Monday, with people queuing at water tankers to safe their share of the scarce useful resource.
Scenes from the Okhla neighborhood depicted individuals clutching cans and buckets, clustering round water tankers. This tableau has was a day by day ritual in lots of sectors of the nationwide capital because the onset of this 12 months’s summer season season. Chanakyapuri’s Sanjay Camp, Geeta Colony in East Delhi, Patel Nagar, Mehrauli, and Chhatarpur are among the many locales affected by the acute water shortage.
Concurrently, because the water provide predicament intensifies within the metropolis, police personnel scrutinized the Jal Board pipelines within the Yamuna Khadar area of northeast Delhi on Sunday, reporting no leaks. Following the inspection, Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) Lokendra Sirohi acknowledged, “There isn’t a leakage right here. If any leakage is detected, we’ll notify the Jal Board and our management room.”
Delhi Minister Atishi penned a letter to Delhi Police Commissioner Sanjay Arora on Sunday, advocating for the deployment of police forces to safeguard main pipelines within the nationwide capital. Atishi remarked that floor patrolling groups had found injury to water provide pipelines in sure areas. She additionally implored the Commissioner to assign personnel to guard the first pipelines for the following fortnight.
The Delhi Water Minister additional accused the BJP’s former South Delhi MP, Ramesh Bidhuri, of assaulting the Delhi Jal Board workplace in Chhatarpur with a bunch of agitators. The water disaster in Delhi has ignited widespread protests, acts of vandalism, and political clashes all through the town. Throughout a press convention, Atishi declared, “Delhi is at present enduring extreme warmth. Regardless of this difficult interval, the BJP has relentlessly troubled the individuals of Delhi. The BJP is orchestrating a conspiracy towards the populace. This conspiracy contains three elements. The primary half includes the Haryana BJP authorities halting the water provide to Delhi, leaving not a drop of water on the Wazirabad Water Remedy Plant.”
Concurrently, AAP MLAs accused Union Jal Shakti Minister CR Patil of failing to intervene, whereas the BJP carried out a ‘matka-phod’ protest towards the Arvind Kejriwal administration to underscore the water disaster in Delhi. On Sunday, Aam Aadmi Celebration MLAs visited the residence of Union Jal Shakti Minister CR Patil at BD Marg, looking for his intervention within the water scarcity situation.
Nevertheless, the MLAs have been unable to fulfill the minister as he was “unavailable” at his residence. The BJP has faulted the AAP authorities for the water disaster, alleging it didn’t take decisive motion towards the tanker mafia siphoning water. The Congress social gathering, which lately contested the Lok Sabha elections in alliance with the AAP within the nationwide capital, has additionally staged protests in Delhi.
On Saturday, Congress employees carried out a ‘Matka Phod’ (break pitchers) protest in Delhi’s Krishna Nagar space towards each the AAP-led Delhi authorities and the BJP-led central authorities, highlighting the continued water disaster within the nationwide capital.