Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge targeted the BJP-led Centre for failing to stop terror attacks despite controlling multiple law enforcement and intelligence agencies, and calling for a thorough investigation into the deadly blast near Delhi's Red Fort that killed 12
BJP built ‘fake Yamuna’ with filtered water for PM Modi’s Chhath Puja ritual, claims AAP
The Aam Aadmi Party on Sunday claimed that the Bharatiya Janata Party government in Delhi had created a “fake Yamuna” by filling an artificial pond with filtered water for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ceremonial dip for Chhath Puja.
Modi will take part in the Hindu festival Chhath Puja at the Vasudev Ghat in northern Delhi on Tuesday.
The Aam Aadmi Party's Delhi chief Saurabh Bharadwaj claimed the artificial pond had been filled with filtered water from the Wazirabad treatment plant pipeline that supplies drinking water to Delhi.
He said that it was an attempt to “fool the public and deceive devotees from Bihar and Purvanchal who come for Chhath”.
Bihar, where the Chhath Puja is a major festival, will head for Assembly polls on November 6 and November 11. The votes will be counted on November 14.
Bharadwaj said while the prime minister would use the “fake Yamuna”, devotees would have to perform rituals in the real and polluted river. “Even if Purvanchalis die, the BJP's propaganda must go on,” Bharadwaj said.
The AAP leader cited a Delhi Pollution Control Committee report as having warned that water from the Yamuna river “can cause serious diseases even if one bathes in it”. He alleged that the BJP was “risking people's health and faith for Bihar votes”.
Sharing the video posted by Bharadwaj on social media, AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal said that the BJP “has also mocked the faith of Chhath Puja”.
The BJP dismissed the allegations as an act of “political frustration”, The Indian Express reported.
Delhi BJP chief Virendra Sachdeva alleged the Opposition party was objecting to the cleaning of Vasudev Ghat.
He described the allegations as “the first-ever instance in which an Opposition party has protested against the government's efforts to ensure cleanliness and sanitation”.
Sachdeva added that Delhi's previous AAP government had banned Chhath Puja on the banks of the Yamuna river between 2018 and 2024, and was now “creating a hue and cry” after the BJP government opened natural ghats for devotees.
Chhath is a festival, mostly celebrated by those hailing from the states of Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Jharkhand. As part of the festival's rituals, devotees stand in water bodies to worship the sun.
This year, the celebrations began on Saturday and will conclude on Tuesday.
Several residents of Trilokpuri in Delhi gathered at a traffic signal on Sunday to protest the absence of water at Vasundhara Ghat ahead of Chhath Puja rituals, The Indian Express reported.
The devotees, allowed to perform rituals there after five years, were demanding water supply and accused the government of neglect.
“They have not even cleaned the ghat,” The Indian Express quoted a protester as having alleged.
Another said that “they promised grand celebrations, but nothing has been done,” the newspaper added.
Source: Scroll
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Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge targeted the BJP-led Centre for failing to stop terror attacks despite controlling multiple law enforcement and intelligence agencies, and calling for a thorough investigation into the deadly blast near Delhi's Red Fort that killed 12
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