The Centre led by BJP cannot cover its callousness under the local BJP leaders trading charges with the AAP that rules the city government for two reasons – first, the pollution is monitored by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), and second, through an Act passed in Parliament, definition of Government of Delhi is meant to read ‘Lieutenant Government of Delhi’, reports to the Centre.Thus, putting all the blame on the city government led by the AAP is ridiculous, though some of the actions of the AAP leadership are also responsible for the high levels of pollution in the Yamuna. Moreover, we have been implementing the Ganga Action Plan for decades, which also covers Yamuna, and this programmes is also run under the Union Ministry of Water Resource, now under Ministry of Jalshakti, Department of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation.The highly polluted Yamuna joins the Ganga at the confluence of Prayagraj. Thus, this river has also religious significance in Hinduism, which is being exploited by the BJP in the name of Hindutva, but has a record of utterly neglecting both the Yamuna and the Ganga for years. According to the Hindu mythology, Yami or Yamuna is the daughter of the Sun God, and the Ganga is the goddess originating from the toe nail of God Vishnu, one of whose incarnations, Lord Rama, has been used as a political tool to exploit the Hindu votes, but no one cares for the cleanliness of the holy water of both the rivers. The BJP thus cannot shift the blame entirely to AAP; rather the chief responsibility lies on the BJP for the entire stretch of Yamuna, since it is directly or indirectly ruling the states of Haryana, Delhi, and Uttar Pradesh which the river passes through.
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