As the Delhi assembly elections are nearing, slated to happen in early next year, the political war game has already begun.
The blame game over the Delhi water quality has worsened by the days, with Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal launching a fresh attack on Union Minister Ram Vials Paswan over the matter.
Throwing a challenge to Union minister Ram Vilas Paswan, Kejriwal asked him to accompany a Delhi Jal Board team that will collect water samples randomly from five places in every MCD ward and test for quality, in a few days. “The findings along with the sources of the samples will be made public,” Kejriwal said, adding that Paswan could also get the samples checked at his level.
A recent study released by the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), stated that Delhi’s water was the most unsafe among 21 State capitals.Union Consumer Affairs Minister Ram Vilas Paswan on Saturday released the second phase of the Bureau of Indian Standardisation (BIS) study which stated that Delhi along with Kolkata and Chennai failed in almost 10 out of 11 quality parameters of drinking water.
Since then, the BJP has been bashing the AAP over the matter with instigating tweets like ‘Delhi people forced to drink and breathe poison.’
Following the allegations, DJB CEO Nikhil Kumar said, “We have tested 1.55 lakh samples since January and they were found to be satisfactory as per both BIS and World Health Organization (WHO) norms.”
Terming the report ‘false and politically motivated’, Kejriwal said that BJP ministers were indulging in dirty politics over water quality, which is causing fear in the masses.
The CM said that only 1.43% of the samples were found to be unsatisfactory and it was well within the World Health Organization’s limit of 5%.He added that the Centre had taken only 11 samples for their study from Delhi and ideally 2,000 samples should have been taken.
The AAP and BJP are indulging in a blame game over issues like drinking water, air pollution and regularisation of unauthorised colonies in the city ahead of the assembly polls.
