The lies of the BJP, which is playing dirty politics in the case of mother-son drowning in a drain located in Mayur Vihar Phase-3 of Delhi on July 31, have finally been exposed. As per the report submitted by the Delhi Police in the Delhi High Court, the drain belongs to DDA which comes under BJP’s Lieutenant Governor. In the hearing of the case held on Thursday, the High Court made it clear that the mother and son died due to drowning in the DDA drain and ordered DDA to give compensation to the victims’ family.
Taking the BJP and the LG to task after the high court order, senior Aam Aadmi Party leader and Kondli MLA Kuldeep Kumar said that just a week before the incident in which the mother-son lost their lives, the DDA had given the completion certificate of the drain under construction. The Aam Aadmi Party has demanded action against the erring officers and compensation to the victims’ family. The High Court order is a slap on the face of the LG and the BJP who are trying to suppress the tragic death of the mother and the son, added Kuldip Kumar.
MLA Kuldeep Kumar and MLA Dilip Pandey held a joint press conference on the issue at the party headquarters on Friday.
Addressing the media, Kondli MLA Kuldeep Kumar said that on the evening of July 31, an innocent child and his mother died after falling into a drain at Mayur Vihar Phase 3 under the Kondli Vidhan Sabha of Delhi and after that when they died, I reached the spot and stood with the family. They were sent to the hospital and were declared dead there and after that when we saw the place, we came to know that due to the negligence of the DDA officers, a mother and son lost their lives.
The Kondli MLA stated that we had said that this is not an accident, it is a well-planned murder for which action should be taken against those officers. However, after that all the leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party came and to save their Lieutenant Governor of Delhi, under whom the responsibility of DDA lies, the BJP leaders neither reached the spot, nor met the family. Even the local MP did not go there to meet the family. They just issued a statement that ‘This is the drain of MCD, the responsibility of MCD is of Delhi Government, the Aam Aadmi Party is known for its dirty politics.’
“But the next day we went to the same place and protested and said that the family should get justice, the mother and son should get justice, those who died due to the negligence of the officers should get justice, they should get compensation. But to save LG sir, the people of Bharatiya Janata Party forgot the death of the mother and son and disappeared from there,” said Kuldeep Kumar.
The Kondli MLA said that what we had said at that time, that this negligence is of DDA, this drain was being made by DDA. The LG and the LG office also made a lot of tweets, got a lot of news planted in the media that this is MCD’s drain, but now yesterday when the High Court, reprimanded both the LG and the DDA and said that the Delhi Police submitted the report that the drain belonged to DDA, and it was being constructed by them.
Kuldeep Kumar said that the surprising thing is that you see the extent of corruption in DDA. DDA is a department which comes directly under the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi. DDA gave the completion certificate (CC) of that drain a week ago, without any inspection. That is what the High Court has said. Delhi Police has said in its report that the drain was being constructed by DDA officers and DDA gave CC a week ago without any inspection. Due to the negligence of which, today that mother and son are not in this world.
He continued that the High Court also told them that DDA should arrange for proper compensation for them, which we were demanding continuously. I thank the High Court that they have taken a step towards providing justice to that mother and son.
He stated, “I again say to LG sir that he should stop doing this politics, stop saving those corrupt officers, due to whose negligence people are losing their lives in Delhi today. You keep on saving the officers, you keep on supporting the officers, you do not take any action against them. The High Court has taken a good initiative for the people of Delhi, due to which LG sir and both the DDA officers will wake up and that family will get justice.”
Addressing the LG, he stated, “LG sir, now everything is clear. Now the High Court has declared that it was DDA’s responsibility, it was DDA’s fault, that DDA was building the drain and the work of giving completion certificate was done by DDA officers. So, I want to ask that in how many days action will be taken against those DDA officers, because of whom that mother and son died? The High Court has woken you up and slapped you on the face for the lies of DDA and those officers and for the BJP leaders who wanted to suppress the death of that mother and son by spreading lies. They were spreading lies so that they don’t get justice. I am happy that the High Court has done the job of exposing them.”
Aam Aadmi Party senior leader and MLA Dilip Pandey said that the lives of those mother and son cannot be brought back, but we respect the court’s decision. We hope that this decision will act as a balm on the wounds of the victim’s family. “It is very unfortunate that the BJP and LG tried to cover up this entire matter, which shows how inhuman BJP’s politics has become. We all know that no matter how dense the darkness of lies may be, a slight light of the lamp of truth can eliminate the darkness. This decision of the High Court also shattered the lies of the BJP. If it (BJP) wanted, it could have accepted that it had made a mistake, but the BJP misused its powers,” he said.
Dilip Pandey said that immediately after this incident, we had requested the LG to intervene in the matter, not from a political but from a human point of view, give proper compensation to the victims’ family and take action against the negligent officers due to whom this incident happened. Not only two lives have been lost in this incident. The mother was the support, the child was the hope. That family had a future. Everything was lost in this accident. “The truth has come out through the court order, we hope that the LG office will take action against the officers responsible for this along with providing financial compensation with the same promptness, so that in future we do not lose any life due to such negligence,” he said.