On Thursday, March 16, Delhi CM and AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal was greeted with a inexperienced carpet on the Bhalswa landfill web site within the nationwide capital. Kejriwal had apparently visited the positioning to examine the bio-mining work being carried out to take away the rubbish piled up on the web site.
Sharing footage of Kejriwal’s go to to the Bhalwa landfill web site, BJP chief Manoj Tiwari took a dig on the AAP supremo by calling him ‘Raja Saheb’. The BJP chief tweeted in Hindi, “When he visits the garbage site, he walks on the green carpet because he is a king…AAP’s charades are limitless @ArvindKejriwal ji.”
लैंडफिल साइट का go to किया तो ग्रीन कारपेट लगाकर चले.. क्योंकि राजा हैं साहेब.. हद है AAP की @ArvindKejriwal जी pic.twitter.com/rYkwIeTUup
— Manoj Tiwari 🇮🇳 (@ManojTiwariMP) March 16, 2023
BJP chief Amit Malviya additionally shared the image of Kejriwal strolling on a inexperienced carpet specifically laid out over the rubbish mounds for the AAP supremo and used a dialogue from the Bollywood movie to take a dig at him. He wrote, “Green carpet welcome at a landfill site for Arvind Kejriwal… Look at your shoes, they are special. Don’t put them on the ground, they will get dirty.”
Green carpet welcome at a landfill web site for Arvind Kejriwal… आपके जूते देखे, ख़ास हैं। इन्हें ज़मीन पर मत उतारियेगा, मैले हो जाएँगे। pic.twitter.com/IdZG4SC3AT
— Amit Malviya (@amitmalviya) March 16, 2023
Delhi BJP spokesperson Praveen Shankar Kumar additionally expressed shock on the inexperienced carpet welcome accorded to the AAP chief throughout his go to to a rubbish web site. Sharing an analogous image, Kumar wrote, “Wow Maharaj… you were once a common man. Now, look at @ArvindKejriwal ji’s style – when he reached Bhalswa to inspect the landfill site, a #GreenCarpet was laid out for sir to walk – lest the shoes would have gotten dirty.”
वाह महाराज .. आप तो आम आदमी थे कभी@ArvindKejriwal जी के ठाठ देखिये – जब Bhalswa लैंडफिल साइट का निरिक्षण करने पहुंचे तो वहाँ साहब के चलने के लियें #GreenCarpet बिछाये गये – कहीं जूता मैला ना हो जाये@BJP4Delhi @Virend_Sachdeva@RamvirBidhuri @aajtak @TajinderBagga @ZeeDNHNews pic.twitter.com/sEnnTkKkUs
— Praveen Shankar Kapoor (@praveenskapoor) March 16, 2023
Meanwhile, after visiting the positioning, Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday stated that the rubbish mounds in northwest Delhi’s Bhalswa landfill can be cleared by March subsequent yr.
“Presently, the landfill held around 5 million tonnes of waste. Over the last two-and-a-half years, 3 million tonnes of waste was removed, but the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), which is now under the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), will work at a faster pace. We are targeting the removal of another 3 million tonnes of waste by December this year,” Kejriwal stated after inspecting the bio-mining work on the landfill.
Kejriwal added that whereas the preliminary goal was to take away 6,500 tonnes of waste per day from Bhalswa, bio-mining work gathered tempo and 9,000 tonnes of rubbish was processed on Wednesday. “By March-end, around 12,000 tonnes of waste will be removed every day. With the speed at which the work is progressing, the area will be cleared of all garbage by March 2024,” he stated.
Notably, Delhi alone generates 11,332 tonnes of Municipal Solid Waste each day and solely treats 47.2% of it, primarily for vitality. The remaining waste results in Delhi’s three landfills in Okhla, Ghazipur and Bhalaswa. This signifies that 5500+ tons of waste are added to landfills each day.
Interestingly, throughout Delhi’s municipal election, the elimination of landfills was on the prime of AAP’s political agenda. During a go to to ‘Okhla-landfill,’ then-Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia spoke passionately about his plans to get rid of these landfills from the town’s panorama. After profitable the MCD elections, AAP’s greatest problem now’s to take away the mountain of rubbish that has amassed in these three landfills, pushing the nationwide capital to the brink of an enormous environmental catastrophe.