Akhilesh Yadav, the leader of the Samajwadi Party, criticised the BJP administration in Uttar Pradesh on Friday for the saturated roads in Varanasi and said that the rain had disproved its promises of progress.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Lok Sabha district of Varanasi experienced waterlogging in various locations as a result of nonstop rain over the last 48 hours. On social media, videos of the inundated highways have been extensively shared.
Yadav said in a statement released by the party that Modi had pledged to transform his parliamentary district like Kyoto (Japan). But since Varanasi, with its flooded roadways, has been changed into Venice, Italy, which is encircled by water, this has remained a fantasy.
Under BJP leadership, according to Yadav, not a single smart city has been built, and the state government is allegedly defrauding the populace in its name.
The roadways are being flooded by sewer water. Many locations in Kashi (Varanasi) are flooded. Accidents are being caused by potholed roadways. Unwanted animals are allowed to wander. He said in the statement that bull assaults had claimed several lives.
In an apparent dig at Modi, Yadav said that under the Namami Gange scheme, people who claimed that “Maa Ganga ne bulaya hai (Mother Ganga has called me)” had converted the Ganga into a drain.
He also said that devotees are coerced into taking a bath and performing ‘jalabhishek’ in filthy water by the BJP administration, which he charged with defrauding the public in the pretext of cleaning the Ganga.
The leader of the Samajwadi Party also claimed that Varanasi residents are affected by power shortages.
Lack of maintenance is causing transformers to blow up. Under BJP leadership, electricity costs have increased, yet power is still unavailable. Yadav said in the statement that industries are also coming to a stop.
Under the BJP administration, not one powerhouse has emerged. He said that a lack of maintenance had destroyed the Samajwadi Party government’s mechanism for producing power.
In order to handle difficulties linked to the rain, teams have been constituted for each zone under the direction of an extra municipal commissioner, according to Sandeep Srivastava, public relations officer for the Varanasi Municipal Corporation. Members of the teams come from the general engineering, health, and water supply departments.
Some areas are flooded as a result of the constant rain. He claimed plans are being made to clear the silt and that the large drains have already been cleaned.
According to Srivastava, the city’s Gurubagh, Ravindrapuri, and Ravidasghat regions, which often saw the worst of the issue, have not had any waterlogging this year. Waterlogging primarily occurs in areas where construction is taking on.