New Delhi: BJP MP Manoj Tiwari on Wednesday reached the Yamuna Ghat in Sonia Vihar despite the prohibition of Chhath celebrations at river ghats, and claimed that he will not follow the order issued by Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA). Tiwari’s visit to the Yamuna Ghat came on the third day of the four-day-long festival.
Denying to follow the order of the DDMA prohibiting celebrations of Chhath Puja at public places due to the threat of Covid, Tiwari said, ‘We will not follow the DDMA order. No one can stop us from performing our rituals. DDMA’s work is to clean the Yamuna and not to ban people from going there’. BJP West Delhi MP Parvesh Verma also reached the Yamuna Ghat at Delhi’s ITO today. ‘Earlier police placed barricades here and stopped people. We came here and allowed their entry. We arranged clean water here. I am happy that people are performing their rituals of ChhathPuja’, Verma was quoted by ANI.
Delhi government had designated sites for the Puja but none of them were on the banks of the Yamuna river. Following DDMA order barring Chhath celebrations at river ghats, the entry to Yamuna ghat at Delhi’s Sonia Vihar has been barricaded.
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Manoj Tiwari had earlier targeted the Kejriwal government on the cleanliness of ghats saying, ‘The Delhi government is not bothered about this development. Delhi government bans people from coming to ghats but makes false claims of cleaning them. The Supreme Court should take a suo-motu cognisance on this matter’. In response, AAP leader Raghav Chadha has blamed the BJP governments in Uttar Pradesh and Haryana for the pollution in the Yamuna River.
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