Police use water cannon against BJP workers outside the house of Delhi Jal Board President Satendra Jain against water crisis.
Crores of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers on Monday demonstrated against the Delhi government over the water crisis. BJP workers were protesting outside the residence of state health minister Satyendar Jain in the Civil Lines area. Delhi Police had to resort to water cannons to disperse the BJP workers. Jain is the chairman of Delhi Jal Board (DJB).
BJP’s Delhi unit president Adesh Gupta blamed the AAP government for the crisis. He said that the government has failed to fulfill its promises and the tanker mafia has flourished under the leadership of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.
“People in Delhi are yearning for every drop of water. Ministers in the Kejriwal government will realize the problems of the people when the water supply is stopped,” he said.
BJP workers also tried to cut the water connection of Jain’s house. The protesters also threatened to cut off the water supply at Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s residence if the problem was not resolved within the next two days.
The protest comes a day after Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) workers allegedly damaged the water connection of Delhi BJP president Adesh Gupta’s residence in Patel Nagar.
BJP leaders and workers gathered outside the circle office of DJB in Civil Lines area on Monday. He alleged that the people of the city were facing a crisis due to non-supply of water.
On Saturday, DJB Vice Chairman Raghav Chadha alleged that Haryana was withholding water from Delhi’s share. He said the Delhi Jal Board had moved the Supreme Court seeking a direction to Haryana to release water from its legitimate share of the capital.
The DJB is supplying 945 million gallons of water a day (MGD) to the city’s residents this summer against the demand of 1,150 MGD. At present, Delhi is getting 479 MGD as against 609 MGD from Haryana. In addition, Delhi draws 90 MGD of groundwater and receives 250 MGD from the Upper Ganga Canal, he had said.
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