Yamuna pollution: Speaker Ram Niwas Goel ordered to marshal out of the Delhi Assembly four BJP MLAs on Wednesday following protests in the house over the issue of pollution in Yamuna river.
BJP MLAs Ajay Mahawar, Anil Bajpai, Mohan Singh Bisht and OP Sharma were ordered to be marshalled out by Goel. Rest of the BJP MLAs decided to boycott the proceedings of the House in protest.
BJP demands debate
The BJP MLAs were demanding a debate on the issue of pollution. The Speaker refused their request, saying he will not allow any debate under any rule.
The MLAs shouted ‘Kejriwal Maafi Mango’ slogans as they marched inside the Delhi Assembly complex with polluted water from the Yamuna river. They submitted samples of Yamuna water in two bottles to the Speaker. However, the speaker threatened to “terminate the membership of BJP MLAs if the water was found contaminated with acid.”
“The LG has paralysed the House and BJP MLAs should be ashamed for it. BJP MLAs should go to LG and ask him not to gag the House,” Goel told BJP MLAs.
Earlier, BJP MLAs held a protest outside the Delhi Assembly over the issue.
Dirty water a health hazard
Leader of Opposition in the Delhi Assembly Ramvir Singh Bidhuri said supply of dirty water from Yamuna was harming people’s health.
Citing data from the Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC), the lieutenant governor’s office had said on Monday that ever since Arvind Kejriwal government came into power eight years ago, pollution in the Yamuna river had doubled.
Waste water from unauthorised colonies and slum clusters, and poor quality of treated waste water discharged from STPs and common effluent treatment plants are the main reasons behind high levels of pollution in the river.
The DPCC data showed that Biological Oxygen Demand (BOD) levels remained within permissible limits (2 milligram per litre) at Palla, where the river enters Delhi, since 2014.
BOD is the amount of oxygen required by aerobic microorganisms to decompose organic material present in a water body. BOD level less than 3 milligram per litre (mg/l) is considered good.
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