The Aam Aadmi Party on Sunday claimed that the Bharatiya Janata Party government in Delhi had created a “fake Yamuna” by filling an artificial pond with filtered water for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ceremonial dip for Chhath Puja.
Modi will take part in the Hindu festival Chhath Puja at the Vasudev Ghat in northern Delhi on Tuesday.
The Aam Aadmi Party’s Delhi chief Saurabh Bharadwaj claimed the artificial pond had been filled with filtered water from the Wazirabad treatment plant pipeline that supplies drinking water to Delhi.
He said that it was an attempt to “fool the public and deceive devotees from Bihar and Purvanchal who come for Chhath”.
Bihar, where the Chhath Puja is a major festival, will head for Assembly polls on November 6 and November 11. The votes will be counted on November 14.
Bharadwaj said while the prime minister would use the “fake Yamuna”, devotees would have to perform rituals in the real and polluted river. “Even if Purvanchalis die, the BJP’s propaganda must go on,” Bharadwaj said.
The AAP leader cited a Delhi Pollution Control Committee report as having warned that water from the Yamuna river “can cause serious diseases even if one bathes in it”. He alleged that the BJP was “risking people’s health and faith for Bihar...
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