Rekha Gupta performs yoga by Yamuna, jabs Kejriwal over failed promises
Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta on Saturday performed yoga on the banks of the Yamuna River on the occasion of International Yoga Day, taking a dig at former Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. She said her act was meant to highlight her administration's efforts to clean the river after years of unfulfilled promises by the AAP government."Yamuna river is the symbol of our faith but the previous governments have ignored it. They (AAP) did not work to clean it. But in the four months that we have been in power, we have worked to clean it."advertisementCalling out the previous AAP government's inaction on cleaning the Yamuna river, Chief Minister Rekha Gupta said that the point of the exercise was to show the people of Delhi the ongoing efforts to clean the river.
"Soon, there will be cruises here where the boats are... Everyone wants to work in this regard, and we used the technology that is being used to clean the river for the first time. We are working in the direction that if a single drop of water enters the river, it must be clean," she said, as reported by news agency ANI."People ask me, where will the cruise run? I want to tell them, the cruise will run on this river where students performed yoga today on boats," she added. Hitting out at the AAP dispensation, she said they associated yoga with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and did not celebrate the occasion.advertisement"If they associate yoga with Prime Minister Modi, what can we do? Tomorrow, he might leave his food if he sees PM's association with it. After seeing BJP government in Delhi, he left the national capital," she charged.The government organised programmes at 11 locations to commemorate the IDY, with ministers, MLAs and BJP MPs joining the celebrations.Inputs from PTI, ANIMust Watch
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