Aam Aadmi Party on Saturday protested outside the LG Secretariat Office, demanding the resignation of Delhi LG Vinai Kumar Saxena, days after a mother and son drowned in an open drain in East Delhi.
The Aam Admi Party and Delhi LG engaged in a fresh tussle over the issue of the death of a lady and her child by drowning on August 1 after falling into a waterlogged drain in Ghazipur, near the Mayur Vihar area of East Delhi, following heavy rainfall in the national capital.
Delhi Environment minister and Aam Aadmi Party leader Gopal Rai on Friday took a dig at the Centre and asked action against DDA workers after a woman and her child drowned after falling into an uncovered DDA drain.
A plea has been filed in the Delhi High Court concerning a tragic incident in East Delhi's Ghazipur area where a mother and child died after falling into an uncovered DDA drain.
A woman and her three-year-old son drowned in a waterlogged drain in the Ghazipur area of East Delhi, while a 12-year-old boy died of electrocution in the Bindapur area on Wednesday as heavy rains lashed parts of the national capital.
"On reaching the above incident spot, it was found that Tanuja and her child Priyansh, who were going to the weekly Budh Bazaar held in the Ghazipur Police Station area, East Delhi, fell into a waterlogged semi-constructed drain and drowned," said the police.
Delhi Lieutenant Governor (LG) VK Saxena on Wednesday directed the Chief Secretary of Delhi to head a committee comprising 5-6 representatives of coaching institutions, representatives of students and officials of concerned departments to address all issues related to regulation, exorbitant
She added that the report highlighted that the drain present in the area was the main reason for the waterlogging and that the library set up in the coaching center was illegal.
Delhi BJP Spokesperson Praveen Shankar Kapoor has said that it is highly regrettable and sad that Mayor Shelly Oberoi is trying to politicise the process of taking action against the coaching centres operating from basements at a time when Delhi city has a Municipal Corporation Ashwani Kumar
Karnataka Energy Minister KJ George on Monday laid the foundation stone for the main drainage line installed by the Municipal Council in the Yagachi pit in the Chikkamagaluru district in the state.
Following the devastating deaths of three students at a coaching institute in Old Rajinder Nagar due to severe waterlogging, MCD Commissioner Ashwani Kumar has announced decisive measures to address the crisis.
"Three such youths who were the future of the country, who were the light of their families, but became victims of the corruption of the useless government of Delhi. I stayed there for three hours...you cannot see that scene. In half an hour of rain, so much water is going into the basement.