Dellhi Latest News: The way the BJP government has effectively controlled the problem of waterlogging and ensured swift drainage, and as the public is now demanding answers for Arvind Kejriwal’s failure last year, it has left Saurabh Bharadwaj rattled.Saurabh Bharadwaj should tell the people of Delhi why, since 2015, his government has engaged in so much corruption in the name of desilting that a citizen organization had to approach the court in 2018 demanding a desilting audit. Delhi BJP President Mr. Virendra Sachdeva stated that the BJP government’s swift action in controlling waterlogging and ensuring quick drainage has caused panic in Aam Aadmi Party’s Delhi president and former minister Saurabh Bharadwaj, as the public is now holding Arvind Kejriwal accountable for last year’s failures.
demands Saurabh Bharadwaj explain years of alleged desilting scams and delayed accountability.
Mr. Sachdeva said that over the past 10 years, the Delhi Jal Board and the Public Works Department under the Arvind Kejriwal government had turned into centers of loot, with desilting becoming a lucrative source of corruption. This led a local citizen group to file a petition in the Delhi High Court in 2018. The Kejriwal government deliberately delayed this petition for a long time. When, in 2024, the court finally ordered a desilting audit, ministers like Saurabh Bharadwaj did not take responsibility for the desilting work. Instead, they used the court’s order as a tool to shift blame onto officials.
Sachdeva says AAP’s failure on waterlogging exposed by BJP’s swift action
The Delhi BJP President said that while Saurabh Bharadwaj is now making statements about the desilting audit and blaming officials for the lack of desilting in 2024, he should explain why desilting wasn’t properly done between 2015 and 2018 either — which is exactly why a petition was filed in the High Court in 2018. Saurabh Bharadwaj should tell the people of Delhi why their government committed so much corruption in the name of desilting since 2015 that a local citizen group had to approach the court in 2018 to demand a desilting audit.