Thousands of Congress workers, under the leadership of Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee president Shri Devender Yadav, hold “matka phod” protests in all the 280 blocks of Delhi to express their ire at the severe water scarcity in the Capital due to the inaction by the BJP and AAP Governments to addr

NEW DELHI/ AAJ KI DELHI/ YOGRAAJ SHARMA

Under
the leadership of Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee president Shri
Devender Yadav, thousands of Congress workers held “matka phod”
(breaking of pitchers) demonstrations in all the 280 blocks of Delhi to
protest against severe water scarcity all across Delhi due to the shadow
boxing and blame games between the BJP and Aam Aadmi Party Governments.

Agitated
Congress workers and local residents, carrying placards and banners,
shouted anti-Kejriwal and anti-AAP Government slogans such as “Pani
Ke Liye Delhi Behal-Tanker Mafia Malamal”, “Ye Kaisa Pani Maaf Hai,
Jaar Khareedne Me Jeb Saaf Hai”, “Dilli Sarkar Ki Ye Nadani, Leakage Se
Behta 58% Paani”, Dilli Ki Ye Dukhad Kahan, Janta Peeti Dushit Paani”,
and “Kharid Ke Paani Peeta Har Pariwar, Neend Me Soi Dilli Sarkar”.

Besides Shri Devender Yadav, prominent among those who participated in the “matka phod’ protests were Ex
MP Shri Ramesh Kumar, Ex Minister Mangat Ram Singhal and Dr. Narender
Nath, Ex MLAs Ch. Mateen Ahmed, Vijay Lochav, Jai Kishan, Amrish Gautam
and Veer Singh Dhingan, Ex Mayor Farhad Suri, DCC presidents Virender
Kasana, Rajesh Chauhan, Manoj Yadav, Vishnu Aggarwal, Dinesh Advocate,
Dharampal Chandela, Kamalkant Sharma, Mohd. Usman, Sidharth Rao, Ex MC
Khavinder Singh Captain, Ch. Ajit Singh, Neetu Verma, Prerna Singh,
P.S. Bawa, Pradeep Gupta, J P Panwar.

Shri
Devender Yadav said that Delhi Congress has been taking up the water
scarcity issue for the past 20-25 days to ensure that people get potable
water for their daily needs, but due to the inaction and dilly-dallying
by the AAP Government in Delhi and the BJP Government at the Centre,
people have been struggling to get even a drop of potable water, and
many residents have been complaining of getting dirty water in their
taps. He said that both the BJP and AAP Governments have been neglecting
the plight of the people by accusing each other for the water scarcity,
instead of taking effective steps to solve the water crisis. He said
that the collusion between the tanker mafia and the ruling party MLAs,
and wide-spread corruption, were the primary reasons for Delhi’s water
crisis.

Shri
Devender Yadav said that the Congress workers were forced to come out
on the streets to break pitchers in each of the 280 Blocks to wake up
the Delhi Government and the BJP Government as they seemed to be least
concerned about the hardships being faced by the people. He said that
Congress has been taking up the issues affecting the people like water
scarcity and the frequent power break downs, as the Delhi Government was
not doing anything to address these issues.

Shri
Devender Yadav said that BJP and Aam Aadmi Party have been playing
shadow boxing on the issue of the BJP-ruled Haryana Government not
releasing water to meet the requirement of Delhi. He said that the AAP
Government should have taken up the water crisis with the Central
Government, and sought release of water by the Himachal Pradesh, UP and
Haryana Governments to meet the water requirements of Delhi, but it kept
quiet till the water crisis went out of control. He said that the fact
that the Delhi Government has not done anything to solve the water
shortage in Delhi for the past 10 years, including enlarging the water
treatment capacity of Delhi Jal Board plants, shows its neglect of the
needs of the people of Delhi.