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The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) connected Tuesday said that aft Chhath Puja, contamination successful the Yamuna has “risen again” arsenic the other h2o released to dilute pollutants has been diverted away.
“A fewer days earlier Chhath Puja, the BJP authorities astatine the Centre and successful Haryana stopped each irrigation h2o meant for farmers. At the Hathnikund Barrage successful Haryana, the full travel was diverted into the Yamuna truthful that concern contamination and sewage discarded could beryllium diluted and the Yamuna successful Delhi would look cleanable for 1 week,” said AAP Delhi president Saurabh Bharadwaj.
Mr. Bharadwaj alleged that, present that Chhath Puja and the Bihar Assembly predetermination person concluded, the other h2o that concisely poured into the Yamuna has been rerouted to the Eastern and Western Canals, with contamination returning to its “real level”.
Hitting back, Delhi BJP spokesperson Praveen Shankar Kapoor said Yamuna’s h2o prime had improved successful December 2025, compared to a twelvemonth ago.
“It seems Saurabh Bharadwaj has inactive not recovered from his electoral defeat, and helium is wholly frustrated with the BJP authorities giving the radical of Delhi the accidental to observe Chhath Puja connected the banks of the Yamuna aft the accepted Deepavali festivities,” helium said.
