EC asks Kejriwal to provide evidence of Haryana govt ‘poisoning’ Delhi water supply by 8 pm tomorrow

While the canvass assemblage did not contented a announcement to the erstwhile Delhi main minister, it wrote to him saying that the “matter is being examined by the Commission successful the airy of provisions of MCC [Model Code of Conduct] and applicable provisions of law.” The EC besides said it had seen the Delhi Jal Board’s report, which does not notation poisoning successful the Yamuna.

“The electors thin to judge immoderate is being said successful nationalist by their leaders and successful that consciousness the statements, if not true, impact the run discourse, thereby vitiating the purity of elections and erode the spot of the voters. In assorted judicial pronouncements, the Hon’ble Courts person clip and again held that purity of elections is an indispensable portion of escaped and just elections and therefore, it is incumbent upon each stakeholders to support purity successful elections,” the EC said successful its missive to Kejriwal.

The canvass assemblage besides said that it expected a person of Kejriwal’s “vast administrative experience” to person the grounds to substantiate the allegation. In its missive to the AAP chief, the EC cited Section 196 of the Bhartiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, which pertains to the offence of promoting enmity betwixt antithetic groups, Section 197, which refers to imputations and assertions to nationalist integration, and Section 353, which refers to statements conducing to nationalist mischief.

The EC besides noted that the ailment by Delhi Chief Minister Atishi and Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann connected Monday alleging an summation successful the ammonia contented successful the h2o released by Haryana to Delhi was being dealt with separately. The committee said that it had asked for a study connected the ammonia levels from Haryana government. As per sources, the EC is yet to see the effect of the Haryana authorities received connected Tuesday.

Both Atishi and Mann besides met with the canvass assemblage Tuesday evening to rise the issue. “We spoke astatine magnitude astir the contented of h2o successful Delhi. We informed them astir however the magnitude of ammonia successful the Yamuna River h2o from Haryana has reached toxic levels. Delhi’s h2o attraction plants tin dainty ammonia till 1-2 ppm. But implicit the past 4 days, the ammonia attraction has reached 7 ppm, which means it is poisonous water. We informed them if successful this mode the toxic h2o continues to beryllium released by the Haryana authorities past respective h2o attraction plants volition wholly unopen down and 30% of Delhi volition not person water,” Atishi said aft the meeting.

Following this, a delegation of BJP leaders, including Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav and Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini, met the Commission to question enactment against Kejriwal. Yadav alleged that the statements were a usurpation of the Model Code of Conduct. Congress person and New Delhi campaigner Sandeep Dikshit besides lodged a ailment against Kejriwal and the Atishi implicit their remarks.