Delhi BJP staged a ‘Jhuggi Jhopri Jan Akrosh’ protest against Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday over high electricity bills and dirty water in the slum areas with residents of 254 slums and service colonies in the city.
Delhi BJP President Virendra Sachdeva, who led his party's protest at Chitra Vihar slum colony in East Delhi, alleged the absence of basic facilities and higher electricity, water bills and dirty water in the slum areas.
“The residents of Delhi's slum and service colonies are indeed the foundation of Delhi's development, supporting the lives of the highly educated, yet it is unfortunate that despite grand promises from the Delhi government, they are forced to live in subhuman conditions,” he asserted.
With Delhi elections to be held early 2025, the BJP's slum expansion campaign has been connecting with citizens in slum and service colonies, running every Sunday for more than a month now.
Hitting out at the AAP, Sachdeva said, “It is sad that those promising free electricity and water are in power, but slum residents are forced to buy drinking water and receive electricity bills amounting to thousands of rupees.
The slums lack cleanliness, DUSIB toilets are filthy, and neither the Delhi government nor the Municipal Corporation is providing them with basic human amenities.”
Shyam Bai, a slum dweller, said "the problem is that we are not getting clean water. We have been living here for 40 years. Nobody is giving us a place to live. We are fed up by paying such big amounts of electricity bills."
“We don't have a place for washrooms. There are 12 people in the family, and we only get 15 kilogrammes of food to eat,” she added. Jyoti, another slum dweller, said the biggest problem is that there is no medical facility at all.
“We want at least a dispensary to be there so that we don't have to go far away for minor health issues," she added.
Sachdeva further said the elections in Delhi will be held in the next few months and when a BJP chief minister will be there in the national capital, all these bills will be reimbursed. “So, I have requested all these people to keep the bills with them," he added.
