New Delhi:
“Drink should you dare” – Arvind Kejriwal’s dramatic response to the Election Fee’s demand for proof to again claims the BJP’s Haryana authorities tried “genocide” by mixing “poison” in Yamuna water provided to Delhi. “We’ve 4 bottles… will ship to every one in all them… please drink and present us. Then we’ll consider,” he stated, pointing to a row of plastic bottles crammed, he stated, with Yamuna water.
Hours earlier the EC directed Mr Kejriwal submit “factual proof” by 11 am Friday.
It additionally sought solutions to 5 questions, together with what sort of ‘poison’ was used, who detected its presence, and the way and the place it was discovered. In its letter, the ballot physique dismissed final evening’s submission – a social media publish through which Mr Kejriwal cited Delhi Jal Board information that stated ammonia ranges within the Yamuna had reached vital ranges, and that it was “extraordinarily toxic for human well being”.
The EC acknowledged receipt of claims of a “sharp enhance in ammonia ranges within the water”, however indicated it might not concern itself with the AAP’s allegations of “deliberate act of water terrorism”. This difficulty, it stated, could be left to the “competence and discretion of governments”.
As an alternative, the ballot physique rebuked the previous Delhi Chief Minister for being “totally silent… in your broadly circulated… assertion of ‘poisoning of Yamuna by Authorities of Haryana with intention to trigger genocide in Delhi’ (and) equating it with an act of conflict between two nations”.
“… no factual and authorized matrix, with proof, has been supplied to assist your assertion.”
Prima facie these feedback, the EC additionally stated, had been discovered as “selling disharmony and enmity between totally different teams, and general public dysfunction and unrest…”
That such allegations have been made “at a fragile time of peak of marketing campaign (for subsequent week’s Delhi Meeting election)”, the EC continued, “prima facie, pose a critical threat of endangering peace and concord between states”. The ballot panel then gave time to file a “particular and pointed reply”.
The row over ‘poison’ within the Yamuna erupted Monday after Mr Kejriwal accused the BJP of getting contaminated the water provide to “create chaos… hoping the blame will fall” on his celebration.
READ | Row Over Kejriwal’s “Haryana Mixing Poison In Yamuna Water” Declare
His remarks had been amplified Chief Minister Atishi, who accused the BJP of “water terrorism” and wrote to Lieutenant Governor, VK Saxena, to red-flag harmful ranges of ammonia – 700 occasions the restrict.
READ | In “Yamuna Poison” Row, Atishi’s “Nadir Shah” Jab At Lt Governor
The BJP hit again onerous, first with Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini counter-accusing Mr Kejriwal of constructing “blatantly false and disgusting statements” and demanding he apologise.
Then Prime Minister Narendra Modi waded in; at an election rally in Delhi Wednesday night he thundered that his celebration would not dare ‘poison’ the identical water he drinks each day, and claimed Mr Kejriwal was making an attempt to divert consideration from failed guarantees to wash the Yamuna.
READ | “Can Haryana BJP Govt Poison Water I Drink?” PM Blasts AAP
And, final night, in a dramatic video shared on-line, Mr Saini drank a handful of water instantly from the river on the level it flows previous a Delhi village. The video was shortly questioned by the AAP, which claimed the Chief Minister had, in actual fact, spat out the water as an alternative of ingesting it.
The BJP’s Haryana unit countered, accusing Mr Kejriwal of getting shared an “edited” video.
READ | Kejriwal Says Haryana Chief Minister “Spat Out” Water, BJP Responds
The Congress has additionally jumped within the fray, with senior celebration chief Rahul Gandhi reminding Mr Kejriwal of his pre-2020 election promise to drink, in the future, from the Yamuna to suggest its purity.
A case has additionally been filed towards the AAP chief in a Haryana courtroom.
The Delhi Jal Board, in the meantime, has additionally rubbished Mr Kejriwal’s allegations about ‘poison’ within the Yamuna. Nonetheless, the water physique chief’s assertion was questioned by Atishi, who recommended he could have been coerced by the BJP, by way of the Lt Governor’s workplace, into saying it.
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