Vasant Kunj residents victim of BJP’s vendetta, water crisis artificially manufactured by BJP by rupturing local water pipeline
There was no water supply in Vasant Kunj for past one week despite implementing all solutions; when we investigated, we got to know that pipeline was damaged by miscreants: Saurabh Bhardwaj
It turned out that it was a conspiracy hatched by BJP to create a false narrative against AAP: Saurabh Bhardwaj
Deeply upset with BJP’s conduct; it’s impossible to guard thousands of pipelines across Delhi; BJP has no idea of the problems residents had to face: Saurabh Bhardwaj
We worked day and night and fixed the pipeline: Saurabh Bhardwaj
It was a daunting task to supply water to 50 thousand households through water tankers but RWA teams pulled it off with great finesse: Saurabh Bhardwaj
BJP made people suffer for water to gain political mileage but they cannot stop CM Arvind Kejriwal from winning elections: Saurabh Bhardwaj
BJP top brass should realise that their cheap tactics are not going to help them anymore: Saurabh Bhardwaj
NEW DELHI:
After a week-long crisis, it has turned out that the residents of Vasant Kunj were victims of BJP’s political vendetta. As per Delhi Jal Board’s investigation it has been revealed that the water crisis of Vasant Kunj was artificially manufactured by BJP by rupturing the local water pipeline. Delhi Jal Board Vice Chairman Shri Saurabh Bhardwaj said, “There was no water supply in Vasant Kunj for past one week despite implementing all solutions; when we investigated, we got to know that pipeline was damaged by miscreants. It turned out that it was a conspiracy hatched by BJP to create a false narrative against AAP. We worked day and night and fixed the pipeline. It was a daunting task to supply water to 50 thousand households through water tankers but RWA teams pulled it off with great finesse. BJP made people suffer for water to gain political mileage but they cannot stop CM Arvind Kejriwal from winning elections. BJP top brass should realise that their cheap tactics are not going to help them anymore.”
Shri Saurabh Bhardwaj said, “First of all, I would like to assure the people of Vasant Kunj that the Delhi Jal Board and the Delhi Government under the leadership of Shri Arvind Kejriwal are with the people of the area and we feel extremely bad about the difficulties that they have had to face in the last couple of days. But I would also like the people to know that they had to face this problem because of the cheap publicity campaign of a political party. For a long time now, there has been a sustained campaign to portray to the media that there is a water shortage in Vasant Kunj. But the BJP was not able to get the support of the people in this campaign, as in reality, there has been no shortage of water in the area.”
He continued, “Now a few days before the MCD elections, suddenly we find that a huge chunk of the water pipeline has very carefully been broken in the lower side. We say this deliberately as the pipeline has been broken in such a way that the water will continue to flow out but since it is at the bottom it will not come up on the road above. This makes it difficult to trace the breakage in the pipeline and the water obviously does not reach the households that it is meant to reach. This is nothing else but a deliberate sabotage. It is a political sabotage to defame the Aam Aadmi Party. Also since it is the BJP that is strongly trying to push the narrative of water shortage in the area, it makes them the main culprit behind this sabotage.”
He added, “The BJP has made over 50,000 families in Vasant Kunj suffer over the last 5-6 days and has literally made them plead for every drop of water just to create this narrative of a water shortage in the area and that too just a couple of weeks before the MCD elections, just to benefit from the anger of the people in the polls. In the last one week, whenever I have come to Vasant Kunj, I have seen the members of the RWAs here as well as the MLA of the area, Shri Naresh Yadav, work with the staff of the Delhi Jal Board late into the night to sort this problem out. Our aim was always to solve this problem as soon as possible. In the meanwhile, we ensured that water tankers reached every household here. The members of the RWAs pulled out lists and checked with each household if they had adequate water.”
Shri Saurabh Bhardwaj said, “But I am very upset with the cheap politics that has been played by the BJP. There are thousands of water pipelines all over in Delhi and it is not possible to place a policeman or a guard on each of the water pipelines. If you try to secretly break water pipelines and then try to defame Delhi Chief Minister Shri Arvind Kejriwal, this is not the kind of politics any political party should indulge in. I would also like to make it clear to the BJP that Shri Arvind Kejriwal will still go on to win in the MCD elections, as the people of Delhi consider him as one of their own.
He concluded, “So, the BJP cannot hurt AAP by these cheap tactics, but the people who are hurt by these things are the people of Delhi. If there was no water supply to the people of the area over the last five days then imagine how they would have managed in that time? Imagine how the people would have taken their baths or washed their utensils? Lack of water supply makes life very difficult. And when such an incident takes place and people are unable to get water at their homes, they will of course go on to blame the government for such a thing. But I will use this opportunity to request the higher authorities in the Bharatiya Janata Party to tell their counterparts in Delhi to not indulge in such cheap politics.”
