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While Delhi was witnessing a public war of words between the Aam Aadmi party government and Lieutenant-Governor VK Saxena over the flood situation in the capital, in Punjab also where the party is in power, he was pointing fingers at factors beyond his control.
Delhi Chief Minister and AAP President Arvind Kejriwal blamed the release of water from the Hatnikund barrage in the BJP-ruled state of Haryana to the capital. Punjab government led Bhagwant Man spoke about management In order to stop the release of water by the Board of Directors of Bhakra Beas (BBMB) – an interstate body controlled by the center – at the last moment, thus averting a catastrophe.
BBMB was scheduled to release 20,000 cups of water on Thursday. Mann’s government objected, saying that many abuses had already taken place along the banks of the Sutlej River, flooding villages, and that any such release would only exacerbate matters. After that, BBMB immediately postponed the release of water.
Heavy rains flooded many districts of Punjab, including Ropar, Jalandhar, Patiala and Ferozepur.
And in Delhi, Kejriwal wrote to Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday, citing the rising levels of the Yamuna river inundating large areas of the capital, which he blamed on the release of water from Haryana’s Hatnikund valley rather than rain.
Facing questions from the BJP and Congress about its preparations for the monsoon, the Kejriwal government said it had no say in the Hatnikund volley.
Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar responded to this by saying that since Hathnikund is a barrage rather than a dam, it is not designed to contain water.
Punjab spokesperson Malvinder Singh Kang told Indian Express, “There is politics in these floods. The water from Hatnikund Valley flows into the Yamuna river as well as a canal in Uttar Pradesh. But they did not release the water to the UP, instead they let all the water flow into the river.” Yamuna. This is what flooded Delhi.”
He added, “In Punjab too, they were planning the same thing, but the government managed to check it in time. If the government had not reacted, BBMB would have released 20,000 earthenware when Punjab was already flooded.”
Kang also claimed that the water level at the Bhakra Dam was “not even near the danger mark”. “It makes sense, then, to let Punjab deal with the floods first before it faces another (water surge)… That is why we are questioning their intentions. Rest, it is a natural disaster.”
Punjab Information and Public Relations Minister Chetan Singh Goramagra has accused the Haryana government of also failing to clean the siphon in the Gaghar River along the Hansi Putana Canal on time, saying that this is what has led to massive waterlogging in the villages of Punjab.
He said he had asked Deputy Commissioner of Patiala Sakshi Sawhney to raise the issue with her counterpart in Kaithal district.
BJP Punjab President Sunil Jacquard said that instead of blaming other countries, the AAP government should have taken the alert by the International Institute for Democracy (IMD) seriously. He asked Mann to disclose if he had held a single flood preparation meeting in the state.
Congress leader Partap Bajwa also blamed “sheer negligence” on the part of the Mann government for the floods, which “caused devastation to nearly half of the state”. He tweeted: “Government AAP has Rs 729 crore available for disaster management. Even Rs 488 crore received from central government. However, it remains unsuccessful.”
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