The Election Fee of India on Tuesday wrote a letter to Aam Aadmi Get together nationwide convenor and former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, asking for proof of ‘Yamuna poisoning’, the cost he made in opposition to the BJP-led Haryana authorities, drawing extreme criticism from the BJP and the Congress amid intense ballot marketing campaign in Delhi.
The ballot panel requested Kejriwal to substantiate with details his severe and grave allegations of poisoning of Yamuna River and mass genocide. The EC cited varied judicial pronouncements and authorized provisions that may result in as much as three years imprisonment for mischievous statements in opposition to nationwide integration and public concord.
The Election Fee famous that such allegations have severe ramifications of making enmity between the regional teams, and residents of the neighbouring States, a menace of a law-and-order state of affairs on account of precise or perceived scarcity or non-availability of water.
The Fee has directed Kejriwal to furnish his response to the complaints, particularly on the factual and authorized matrix together with evidentiary help thereof by 8 pm on January 29, 2025, in order to allow the Fee to look at the matter and take motion as applicable.
Kejriwal’s costs of poisoning Yamuna water extremely objectionable: LG
In the meantime, Delhi Lieutenant Governor V Okay Saxena wrote to Chief Minister Atishi on Tuesday, alleging that Kejriwal’s accusations that “poison” is being blended within the Yamuna water and there was an “try of genocide” within the nationwide capital are extremely objectionable and unlucky, and quantity to endangering nationwide safety.
Citing media stories, Saxena mentioned the previous Delhi chief minister’s allegations in opposition to the BJP-led Haryana authorities of poisoning the Yamuna river and trying a “genocide” in Delhi are “extremely objectionable, unlucky and undesirable”.
“Making false, deceptive, non-factual accusations of poisoning and genocide over a delicate concern like consuming water and trying to incite the general public in opposition to one other state authorities isn’t solely a menace to the states concerned but in addition to nationwide peace and safety,” he mentioned within the letter to the chief minister.
The LG additionally identified that as an alternative of condemning Kejriwal’s statements, Atishi strengthened the “confusion and concern” amongst individuals by writing a letter to the Election Fee (EC) over the matter.
Saxena mentioned he expects the Delhi chief minister to rise above “slim pursuits” and chorus from making “deceptive, harmful, and baseless statements, and advise the AAP convenor to do the identical for the sake of public welfare and peace”.
Arvind Kejriwal’s sensational declare
Delhi’s water disaster took a pointy political activate Monday, with Kejriwal accusing the Haryana authorities of indulging in “organic warfare”. In a fiery put up on X, he alleged, “Poison is being blended into the Yamuna to make its water untreatable. If individuals in Delhi devour this water, many will die. That is nothing in need of a mass homicide.”