delhi congress President Devendra Yadav launched a scathing attack on the bjp government and said that it has completely failed in cleaning the Yamuna. bjp is now showing the dream of running a cruise to confuse the public. The claim of starting a cruise in yamuna by december 2025 is completely an attempt to mislead the public and cover up its 100 days of failures.

delhi congress President Yadav said, "The plan to run a 6 km cruise from sonia vihar to Jagatpur, which was announced in march 2025, is still lying idle. It has fallen victim to a delay of three months. He called it a hoax just like chief minister arvind kejriwal had earlier promised to make delhi like london and Paris." The congress leader suggested to rekha Gupta, "She should ask the government to move away from event-based publicity and work seriously towards strengthening the infrastructure of Delhi. He clarified that the congress does not oppose the idea of running a cruise in the Yamuna, but the question is, will the health of tourists be safe in the filthy yamuna in today's situation?"

Only 11 out of 37 STPs are working

Citing the report of the delhi Pollution Control Committee, Devendra Yadav said that out of the total 37 sewer treatment plants (STPs) in the city, only 11 are working according to the standards. The remaining 26 plants are either non-functional or are performing below capacity, due to which dirty water is falling directly into the Yamuna. The central pollution control board has decided to conduct an audit, which raises questions on both the intention and functioning of the government.

171 MGD dirty water is falling in yamuna daily

Devendra Yadav also told that the work of upgradation of 18 STPs started in 2015 on the instructions of NGT was to be completed by 2017, but is pending till date. This makes it clear that both the aam aadmi party and bjp governments have limited the cleaning of yamuna to mere announcements. He expressed concern that the 22 km long yamuna stream from Wazirabad to Okhla Barrage is highly polluted, in which industrial, chemical and domestic waste directly falls.

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Balasahana Suresh

09/06/2025 10:37 AM