In both Delhi, Punjab, AAP govts allege ‘flood politics’, tread water
In Capital, there is a daily war of words. In Punjab too, Mann govt has asked why was water about to be released from Bhakra, till it intervened
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While the Aam Aadmi Party government and Lieutenant Governor V K Saxena have been engaged in a public verbal battle over the flood situation in the Capital, the party has also been blaming outside forces in Punjab, where it is in power.
Arvind Kejriwal, the leader of the AAP and the chief minister of Delhi, has attributed the collapse of the Capital to the release of water from the BJP-controlled Haryana province's Hathnikund dam. The Bhakra Beas Management Board (BBMB), an interstate organisation under the jurisdiction of the Centre, was able to suspend the release of water just in time, preventing a catastrophe, according to the Bhagwant Mann-led Punjab administration.
On Thursday, the BBMB was supposed to release 20,000 cusecs of water. The Mann administration opposed, claiming that since there had already been a number of breaches along the Sutlej river's banks that had flooded communities, any additional releases would simply worsen the situation. The BBMB then promptly postponed the water discharge.
Several Punjabi districts, including Ropar, Jalandhar, Patiala, and Ferozepur, are under water as a result of the heavy rain.
In a letter to Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday, Delhi Mayor Arvind Kejriwal noted the rising Yamuna River levels that had inundated large portions of the Capital and blamed them on water released from the Hathnikund barrage in Haryana rather than rain.
The Kejriwal administration has been claiming that it had no input with the release from the Hathnikund barrage in response to inquiries about its monsoon preparations from the BJP and Congress.Manohar Lal Khattar, the chief minister of Haryana, refuted this claim by claiming that Hathnikund is not intended to hold back water because it is a barrage rather than a dam.
According to Malvinder Singh Kang, the chief spokesperson for the Punjab AAP, "There is politics in these floods. In Uttar Pradesh, water travels from the Hathnikund barrage to the Yamuna and a canal. But instead of releasing water to UP, they allowed it all to flow into the Yamuna. It was this that flooded Delhi.
He continued, "They were preparing the same thing in Punjab as well, but the government was able to stop them in time. The BBMB would have released 20,000 cusecs when Punjab was already under water if the government had not acted.
Kang further asserted that the Bhakra dam's water level was "not even close to the danger mark." The only logical course of action is to let Punjab deal with the floods before preparing for another (water surge). We are suspicious of their motivation for this reason. Rest, it's a natural disaster, he advised.
Chetan Singh Jauramajra, the minister of information and public relations for Punjab, said that the significant waterlogging in Punjab villages was caused by the Haryana government's failure to promptly clean a syphon in the Ghaggar river on the Hansi-Butana canal length.
He declared that he had requested Kaithal district deputy commissioner Sakshi Sawhney to bring up the matter with her.
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Sunil Jakhar, leader of the Punjab BJP, stated that the AAP administration should have taken the IMD advisory seriously rather than blaming other states. He questioned Mann about whether he had attended any meetings to discuss flood prevention in the state.
Partap Bajwa, the leader of the Congress, also attributed the flooding's "horrendous destruction in nearly half the state" to "the sheer negligence" of the Mann administration. The AAP government has Rs 729 crore available for disaster management, he tweeted. The Central Government has even collected Rs 488 crore. However, it continued to fail.
