Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee president Shri Devender Yadav said that with the Chhath Puja festival just three days away, devotees are extremely worried about the toxic air and the poisonous, ammonia-polluted waters of the Yamuna, as they have raised serious health concerns for the people with the Kejriwal Government making no arrangement to ensure that the Poorvanchalis hold the puja in fresh and clean waters.

Shri Devender Yadav said that the AAP Government and BJP leaders have been locked in verbal duels with neither the Delhi Government nor the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) making any preparations for the Chhath Puja. He said that Delhi’s air has also reached hazardous levels, as the Winter Action Plan, proposed by the AAP Government, has not made any impact in checking the air pollution.

Shri Devender Yadav said that every year when the air and water turn toxic, the Kejriwal Government comes up with various proposals to control pollution, but they rarely make any difference as plans are not  translated into concrete actions, and as a result,   people are left to fend for themselves.

Shri Devender Yadav said that with a little under four months remaining for the term of the Kejriwal Government to run out, it was “working on seven action plans to intensify effort across seven key areas to combat pollution, including developing paved and green pathways, constructing walkways and creating open spaces along rights of way for all raods”, which raises a pertinent question as to why such plans were not put into action in the past 11 years. He said that even if the broken roads were paved, which Kejriwal had promised to get repaired before Diwali, dust pollution could be checked to some extent, but like Kejriwal’s all other promises, this too has remained on paper.