In the national capital, long queues of people were observed on Saturday getting water from tankers as the city continued to swelter in the summer heat.
During the summer water scarcity in the nation’s capital, images from the morning showed people from the Mayur Vihar neighbourhood’s Chilla Gaon, Sanjay Colony, Okhla area, and Geeta Colony area forming lines, gripping onto buckets and cans, and swarming around water tankers.
Since the beginning of the summer season this year, these scenes—which feature extremely high temperatures—have become commonplace in many parts of the nation’s capital.
Delhi’s Water Minister Atishi went on an indefinite hunger strike on Friday amid the political back-and-forth over the water crisis. He said that the Haryana government was withholding Delhi’s fair share of water.
Sanjay Singh, the head of the Aam Aadmi Party, and other party members were with her when she went on the hunger strike in Bhogal, which is close to Jangpura.
Before going to Bhogal, she visited Rajghat to pay her respects to Mahatma Gandhi.
Meanwhile, Sunita Kejriwal, the wife of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, read a message from the Chief Minister, who is now detained by the courts, stating that Arvind Kejriwal is distressed to see the people of Delhi suffer from a lack of water.
According to Sunita Kejriwal, “It hurts me to see how Delhi people are suffering from a lack of water on TV.” I hope Delhi’s citizens would be relieved and that Atishi’s “tapasya” will be successful. May God shield Atishi, I send her my warmest wishes.
But with regards to the water situation, the Bharatiya Janata Party has not stopped criticising the Delhi government. The AAP government, according to BJP MP Bansuri Swaraj, “orchestrated” the situation in order to “encourage corruption.”
“It almost seems that this crisis, which is not a natural crisis, has been orchestrated by the Kejriwal government to encourage their own corruption as well as to encourage the illegal tanker mafia,” Bansuri Swaraj said to ANI.
“The state of Delhi is terrible. All around the city, there is a drought, and all the Kejriwal government is doing is playing about. The Delhi minister, Atishi, is now engaging in mere theatricals and threatening Delhiites with anshan (fast), rather than working on the ground or taking any appropriate action, the speaker continued. (ANI).