Govt created new state in form of Minto Bridge, says Bharadwaj

Taking a dig at the BJP, AAP Delhi chief Saurabh Bharadwaj on Wednesday said the government has created a new state in the form of Minto Bridge. Rekha Gupta is its Chief Minister and Parvesh Verma is the PWD Minister of that state.

He sated this after several BJP leaders shared videos showing no waterlogging in the area despite heavy rain that lashed the city on Tuesday.

Addressing a press conference on Wednesday, Bharadwaj said, “Tuesday’s rainfall in Delhi can at best be described as ordinary. Yet the city witnessed scenes that have never been seen before. Key arterial roads such as ITO, Zakira, road in front of Ambedkar Stadium, Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, and roads in Lutyens’ Delhi outside the residences of Ministers Parvesh Verma and Kapil Mishra were completely submerged.” As a result of focus on Minto Bridge, the BJP government ended up submerging Connaught Place and this is what the local people are saying. Therefore, an investigation must be launched into why Connaught Place was flooded. Those who were awarded hundreds of crores worth of desilting contracts must be investigated, he demanded.