The Congress introduced on Friday that it’s going to construct a devoted Chhath ghat on the Yamuna riverbanks, which shall be named the “Sharada Sinha Ghat”, much like these on the Maha Kumbh. Bihar Congress president Akhilesh Prasad Singh, throughout a press convention, highlighted the contribution of the folks from Poorvanchal in Delhi’s improvement, significantly through the Congress-led authorities when the “metropolis was remodeled into probably the greatest on the earth”.
Nevertheless, Singh criticised the BJP and AAP for allegedly exploiting the Poorvanchali neighborhood as mere vote banks, quite than addressing their issues.
Singh alleged that each the BJP and AAP prompted deep damage to the feelings of Poorvanchalis by stopping them from celebrating their most vital spiritual pageant, Chhath Puja, on the banks of the Yamuna river. He said that whereas the river was extremely polluted and the Delhi Excessive Court docket had banned the pageant because of the contamination, the AAP authorities did nothing to handle the air pollution.
“The Congress has taken a pledge to make Chhath Puja just like the ‘Maha Kumbh’ when it returns to energy, and can construct a separate Chhath Ghat on the Yamuna banks, which shall be declared as a separate district and named as Sharada Sinha Ghat,” Singh mentioned.
Sharada Sinha was a singer identified for devotional Chhath songs. BJP president JP Nadda, whose father graduated from Patna College, had in Parliament equated Poorvanchalis with unlawful immigrants Rohingyas and Bangladeshis, whereas Kejriwal mentioned that Poorvanchalis have been including pretend votes in Delhi, he alleged.
Singh claimed {that a} majority of individuals dwelling within the 1797 unauthorised colonies within the capital are Poorvanchalis, who reside in inhuman circumstances with out even primary civic services, like sanitation, potable water, roads, however neither
Kejriwal, nor the BJP confirmed any curiosity in enhancing their dwelling circumstances, he alleged.
In one other press convention, the Congress alleged that the Kejriwal authorities has completely uncared for and damage the curiosity of Dalits, minorities, OBCs, advasis and the marginalised throughout his “misrule” over the previous 10 years.
All India Congress Committee Delhi in-charge Qazi Mohammad Nizamuddin requested Kejriwal to make his stand clear concerning the “growing assaults and hatred” in opposition to Dalits, minorities, marginalised and advasis throughout the nation.
“After the communal violence in Jahangirpuri and northeast Delhi areas, you neither visited the affected areas nor spoke publicly in favour of the victimised and susceptible communities. Because the then-CM of Delhi, why did you preserve silence?” he requested.
(With PTI inputs)