Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, July 14: Arvind Kejriwal, the Chief Minister of Delhi, and VK Saxena, the Lieutenant Governor, who have recently engaged in verbal sparring, came together to brief the media on the current situation while stating, “We need to work as a team,” due to the continuous flooding issues in the nation’s capital.
CM Kejriwal, ministers Atishi and Saurabh Bharadwaj, and L-G Saxena examined a flooded section close to Vikas Bhawan, ITO on Friday where a drain regulator had been damaged.
The L-G was reacting to minister Saurabh Bharadwaj, who said that despite repeated requests to officers yesterday night, the NDRF team only arrived at the scene on Friday.
“Thank you, the situation would have been better had the NDRF reached the spot last night itself,” Bharadwaj said.
L-G Saxena said, “I would like to tell you that this is not the time to resport to a blame game or point fingers at each other. Right now, we need to work as a team. I, too, can say a lot of things but this isn’t what we should do at this time.”
At the joint press conference, CM Kejriwal said those who have been dealing with flooding issues for the past few days will soon experience some relief as the Yamuna’s surging waters are slowly but surely receding.
“…water flooded different areas due to many reasons. Here, the flooding took place because of a breach (of drain regulator) while at Raj Ghat, it was a caused due to backflow of water from a drain. Several other places were flooded due to the backflow of the Yamuna waters. However, the people will get some respite soon as the Yamuna waters have started receding,” the CM said.
