The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has alleged that the recent BIS report released by Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan, which claimed that Delhi’s water samples failed quality tests was ‘fabricated’ and presented an atmosphere in favour of the Reverse Osmosis (RO) companies.
AAP national spokesperson Raghav Chadha claimed that a false report was created to benefit manufactures of RO purifiers. “Just before the hearing in the Supreme Court, an atmosphere was created to give the impression that quality of water was bad. It is BJP and Paswan who raised the issue whether water is fit to drink..,” Chadha said.
Chadha demanded Paswan’s resignation and asserted that the RO companies were ‘upset’ as their business will be hurt if the water in Delhi could be directly consumed from tap water and claimed that is why the Government was trying to safeguard them.
Chadha was referring to a case in the Supreme Court which is hearing a petition filed by Water Quality India Association, representing the RO manufacturers, challenging the NGT’s order which had directed the Government to regulate the use of purifiers and sensitise public about the ill effects of demineralised water.
AAP Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh had on Friday demanded the resignation of Paswan for giving out a “false” report. Singh asked the Union Minister on whose provocation he lied and defamed Delhi through his allegations.
“The report on Delhi’s water quality as disclosed by Paswan is completely fabricated as the people whose name is in the list, have claimed that nobody visited their houses to collect any such samples,” he said.
The Centre and the city Government have been trading allegations since Paswan released a BIS report on November 16 that said water samples collected from 11 places in the city failed quality tests.