At the 23rd edition of the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit, Rekha Gupta finally broke her mum about the controversy of the ‘clean water’ pond at the Vasudev Ghat during the festivity of Chhat Puja. According to Hindustan Times, she mentioned that “the opposition just wants to create a story. For eleven years, they governed the city, stopped the celebrations of Chhath, and did not recognise that the faith of thousands of people was attached to it.”
Opposition’s propaganda
CM Rekha Gupta claims that the opposition just wanted to make a story out of it. She even claimed that the opposition, which ruled for eleven years, had no regard for the sentiments of thousands of people. She even mentioned that the opposition, during their rule, had stopped the Chhath Puja at the ghats. CM Rekha Gupta clarified that her government had made such facilities at the 13,500 spots across the capital city to help the people take part in the festivities.
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Provisions made for helping people
CM Rekha Gupta also claimed that she had asked the administration to facilitate careful provision, which includes barricades, to prevent the overflow of the river or any damage. She claims that such of provision was also made at the Vasudev Ghat, since the area was very muddy, so tonnes of mud were removed from there. CM Rekha Gupta said that the pool also carried the water of the Yamuna, and the opposition's claims that an enclosure with clean water is false.
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AAP Delhi Head Saurabh Bharadwaj claimed that the BJP had ‘built a fake Yamuna’ by secretly filling up a small stream at Vasudev Ghat. He mentioned that the water was filtered water brought from the Wazirabad Water Treatment Plant. It is the same plant that supplies drinking water to Delhi. Rekha Gupta dismissed all the allegations by terming all these as a ‘political drama’ and also claiming that the opposition was objecting to cleanliness efforts at the riverbank.
