Flooded Delhi exposes AAP model

NT Bureau, Agencies

New Delhi: Water levels in the Yamuna river continue to rise after it breached a 45-year high on Wednesday. Thousands of people who stay nearby have been shifted to safer areas as water gushed into their homes and markets near the river, causing them immense hardships.

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government said water supply may be affected in parts of the city with the shutting down of treatment plants at Wazirabad, Chandrawal and Okhla following rising levels of the Yamuna.

The Delhi BJP sharpened its attack on the Arvind Kejriwal government with party MP Gautam Gambhir saying the city has become a “gutter” which was a price for the freebies as swelling Yamuna water entered areas like ITO and Civil Lines on Thursday.

Narrating the problems faced at relief camps, a person said, “It’s poor people like us who are suffering… Government makes false promises but does nothing on the ground. We don’t get anything.”

Another flood victim Radhe Kishan sought to vent his anger at the government saying, “Last year too the area had got flooded. The government has hardly done anything since then and the situation remains the same.”

“The government could have at least made arrangements for food. But that is being provided by a gurdwara,” he said.

A shopkeeper at north Delhi’s Monastery market alleged that the government has not done anything.

“Our goods have been destroyed. This is like Venice,” another person said, pointing towards the flooded market.