Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday congratulated people from Poorvanchal for ensuring that a Chhath Puja ‘ghat’ in south Delhi's Kalkaji gets constructed. The permission for construction of a 'ghat' inside an MCD park in Kalkaji had not been granted earlier.
Senior AAP leader Sanjay Singh, along with several senior party leaders, sat on a 'dharna' briefly on Thursday at south Delhi's Greater Kailash, accusing the BJP of playing "dirty politics" over the construction of the ghat, a day after the workers of the two parties clashed over the issue.
The permission to construct the ghat was later granted by the authorities. In a tweet, Kejriwal said people from Poorvanchal were not being allowed to construct ghat.
"AAP protested with the people of Purvanchal and won. Their arrogance lost. The ghat is getting constructed now," Kejriwal tweeted.
The four-day Chhath festival began on Thursday and on the last two days, devotees perform rituals and offer evening and morning 'arghyas' (offerings) to Sun God by taking a dip in a river or other water bodies. The age-old festival is celebrated mostly by people from Bihar and eastern Uttar Pradesh or Poorvanchal.
Meanwhile, the AAP on Friday slammed the BJP over the breaking of the Chhath Ghat at the Greater Kailash constituency and said that the Purvanchalis brought Prime Minister Narendra Modi but now the BJP has turned against the purvanchalis.
"Prime Minister Narendra Modi got huge support from the people of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar in his own constituency Varanasi. The last time the party got 73 seats from Uttar Pradesh and this time he got 64 seats from Uttar Pradesh. The BJP also got all the seats from the state of Bihar but they were beaten up and also tortured in those states," he said.