Delhi water crisis: Atishi begins fast for more water from Haryana
The Hindu
The Delhi Water Minister said her appeal to the Haryana government and a letter to PM Narendra Modi for help did not yield any result and Delhi was not getting adequate water.
Delhi Water Minister Atishi on June 21 began her indefinite hunger strike in south Delhi's Bhogal to press on her demand for more water from Haryana.
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's wife Sunita Kejriwal, along with AAP MP Sanjay Singh and Delhi Minister Saurabh Bharadwaj, were present as Atishi began her fast.
Sunita Kejriwal read out a message from the Chief Minister, who is currently lodged in Tihar jail, in which he expressed hope that Atishi's 'tapasya' would be successful.
The Chief Minister said he was immensely pained by seeing on TV the plight of the people facing water shortage amid the ongoing intense heatwave, he said.
"It's our culture to provide water to the thirsty. Delhi gets water from neighbouring states. We hoped support of neighbouring States in such intense heat. But, Haryana reduced Delhi's water share.
"Although there are governments of different parties in the two States but is this time for politics over water," he said, referring to the BJP that is in power in Haryana.
Earlier, Ms. Atishi, accompanied by Sunita Kejriwal, Singh, Bharadwaj and other leaders paid tributes to Mahatma Gandhi at Rajghat before heading to Bhogal.
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