Gupta knocks at L-G’s door, wants AAP to ‘shed idleness’

Manoj Tiwari writes to Baijal over power cuts, water shortage

May 18, 2017 01:06 am | Updated 06:56 am IST - New Delhi

Leader of Opposition in the Assembly Vijender Gupta

Leader of Opposition in the Assembly Vijender Gupta

Leader of Opposition in the Assembly Vijender Gupta on Wednesday wrote to Lieutenant-Governor Anil Baijal, asking him to direct Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his Cabinet to “shed their state of idleness, inaction and lethargy.”

This, even as Delhi BJP president Manoj Tiwari wrote to the L-G requesting a high-level meeting of bureaucrats and engineers of the Delhi Jal Board (DJB), TRANSCO and the Power Department to identify solutions to the problem of what he claimed were repeated power cuts and water shortage in various parts of the Capital.

Writing to Mr. Baijal “in his capacity as Administrator of the Delhi government”, the Leader of Opposition argued that the Delhi government had gone in “a state of ennui” after the Aam Aadmi Party’s “long-drawn, failed political battle and exposés of their corrupt practices.”

No Janta Darbar? asks BJP

“It is criminal on the part of the Chief Minister and his government to have lost touch with the aam aadmi of Delhi. The Chief Minister, Deputy Chief Minister and Ministers have not bothered to meet the public; they are not holding the much-touted janta darbars . The CM even refuses to meet protesters and demonstrators at his residence in Civil Lines. Even today, he refused to meet a group of women protesters,” the LOP argued.

‘Sad state of affairs’

He added that “a sad state of affairs” existed in the Capital with the Chief Minister having “time to see movies, but no time or inclination to meet Delhites who come to his residence in the hope of getting redressal.”

Mr. Tiwari, in his letter, said that several reports claimed power cuts and water shortage were being reported in the Capital despite no shortage of raw water inflow from Haryana or Uttarakhand.

“The quality of Jal Board water in taps is filthy. People from all sections of society are forced to buy bottled water or install water purifiers, without which they would be prone to water-borne diseases,” Mr. Tiwari alleged, flagging issues about the quality of water being supplied to areas across the city.

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