New Delhi [India], March 31 (ANI): Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Delhi State President Saurabh Bharadwaj flagged a pointy contradiction within the BJP’s stand, declaring that whereas its personal former Lieutenant Governor (LG) V.Ok. Saxena repeatedly claimed there was no water scarcity in Delhi, the federal government is now turning to borewell sources.
He questioned why a metropolis stated to have ample water is dealing with such measures and referred to as out the BJP for deflecting accountability as an alternative of addressing the disaster.
Referring to the summer time motion plan issued by the Delhi Jal Board, AAP Delhi State President Saurabh Bharadwaj said, ‘In 2023, when the then Aam Aadmi Party authorities said that Delhi doesn’t have adequate water as per its inhabitants and that Haryana ought to present water to Delhi or the central authorities ought to prepare water for the town, the BJP-appointed Lieutenant Governor (LG) Vinai Kumar Saxena used to subject letters claiming that Arvind Kejriwal doesn’t know how one can handle water, whereas asserting that Delhi has loads of water.’
The AAP Delhi Unit Chief additional stated, ‘Like the LG, in 2024, BJP Delhi president Virendra Sachdeva additionally claimed that Delhi has loads of water and that there’s solely a administration subject. BJP MP Bansuri Swaraj would even publish movies of minor pipe leakages. When the BJP-appointed LG and Delhi president Virendra Sachdeva stored insisting that there’s ample water, then why does the BJP authorities now want borewell water?’
Saurabh Bharadwaj stated, ‘The BJP authorities ought to have already got sufficient water. If there’s loads of water, then present it; why are you not doing so? This is the truth of the BJP, they solely blame others and don’t need to do any work themselves.’
Meanwhile, on Sunday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi emphasised the necessity to ‘reiterate the resolve’ for water conservation throughout the nation, hailing the affect of a number of campaigns all through the years in bringing consciousness to the trigger.
Addressing the nation within the 132nd episode of ‘Mann Ki Baat’, PM Modi highlighted that the water conservation marketing campaign, which started eleven years in the past, has efficiently resulted in bettering the water harvesting infrastruction within the nation. ‘Under this marketing campaign, almost 5 million synthetic water harvesting constructions have been constructed within the nation,’ he stated.
A big focus of this tackle was the ‘Amrit Sarovar’ marketing campaign, underneath which 70,000 water our bodies have been created throughout the nation. (ANI)