After BJP, AAP announces fogging campaign in Delhi to fight dengue
Darpan News Desk IANS, 26 Oct, 2021 12:03 PM
New Delhi, Oct 26 (IANS) Criticising the BJP-led Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) for not performing its duties properly, the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Tuesday announced a fogging campaign from October 27 in the national capital.
"BJP's MCD failed to fumigate Delhi and check the mosquito breeding due to which cases of dengue - an annual disease - have registered a surge. During our mohalla campaigns, we got to know that hardly any malaria inspector or other MCD officials visited their areas to spray chemicals or fumigate. So, AAP has decided to jump in and help people of Delhi by starting a fogging campaign from tomorrow despite the fact that it is not our but the MCD's responsibility," AAP spokesperson, Saurabh Bharadwaj, said at a press conference.
Claiming that the Delhi government has not withheld a single penny from the MCD, he alleged that the BJP has used its revenues earned from toll tax and advertisements for "illegal purposes". He also said that the saffron party has floated a tender for medicines, which cannot be procured before December.
Responding to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's comment over his Delhi counterpart, Arvind Kejriwal's Ayodhya visit, Bhardwaj said: "Lord Ram does not belong to Ayodhya only. He belongs to everyone. People's comment over Kejriwal's Ayodhya visit shows their narrow-mindedness."
Delhi BJP president Adesh Kumar Gupta on Monday broke his silence over AAP's numerous attacks on his party's "inefficiency" in running the civic body in the city.
Gupta said: "All three MCDs are working tirelessly day in, day out to control the vector-borne diseases in the national capital. The party has also instructed mayors of all three corporations to intensify fogging between October 26 and November 10."
The ministry said that all due protocols and norms relating to Covid-19, as notified by the Union Health Ministry from time to time, shall be adhered to by the foreign tourists, the carriers bringing them to India and all other stakeholders at the landing stations.
Tamil Nadu farmers association Deputy Secretary, P.S. Masilamani, who had participated in the farmers' agitation in New Delhi, told IANS that the farmers of Cauvery delta are "disturbed and outraged by the mowing down of fellow farmers and we are conducting peaceful protest marches in solidarity with the farmers of Lakhimpur Kheri."
A total of 28 civilians have been killed by terrorists in Kashmir in 2021, IG Kashmir Vijay Kumar said in a statement on Thursday. The statement further said that in all such cases, the terrorists used pistols.
Farmers allege that the minister's son was in one of the cars that mowed the farmers. Ashish has been named in the FIR lodged in connection with the incident under IPC Section 302 (murder).
Fortunately, no one is injured in the incident, which was the fourth such case in Bengaluru in the last 15 days. The families who lived in the apartment managed to escape as soon as they got the first indication.
According to the farmer leaders, the last rites of three farmers was performed as wish of their families and with full customs. While one family, demanding the re-postmortem, has refused to perform the cremation.
