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Agencies
New Delhi, Oct 27: Cricketer turned politician, Gautam Gambhir, left the Delhi Chief Minister, Arvind Kejriwal embarrassed on Thursday after he tweeted his old letter to him about Ghazipur landfill row.
Gambhir, who is also Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) east Delhi MP accused Kejriwal of caring about the site only before the Delhi Municipal Corporation (MCD) elections.
Gambhir said that he visited the Ghazipur landfill mountain “eight times since 2019” and despite asking the chief minister to come there “again and again”, he did not.
“Chunav mendak aasman dekh kar nikalte hain, takhlife dekh kar nahin (Electoral frogs come out looking at the sky, not seeing people's pain),” the east Delhi MP's tweet, roughly translated from Hindi, read.
The former cricketer's letter was sent to Kejriwal in 2020, soon after he was elected as the chief minister for the third time. “As it has been a while since the results came and your swearing in ceremony, I would like to draw your towards one of the biggest landfill sites in Asia, the Ghazipur landfill which falls under my constituency (East Delhi),” it read.
“It is a matter of great concern for all of us being public servants.
The people living near the landfill site are in a very plightfull situation. As the CM of Delhi, you should visit the site for their sake and see their condition,” Gambhir's letter read.
There has been no reaction to Gambhir's statement from the saffron side, but earlier today AAP and BJP workers clashed ahead of Kejriwal's visit to the Ghazipur landfill site. With placards reading “have shame Kejriwal”, BJP workers were staging a stir at the site and their AAP counterparts later reached the venue and raised slogans. Police personnel stepped in to control the situation. |
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