Delhi Water Crisis: Atishi Begins Indefinite Hunger Strike; Sunita Kejriwal Reads CM's Letter | Updates

Delhi Water Minister Atishi on Friday began her indefinite hunger strike in south Delhi’s Bhogal to press on her demand for 100 million gallons of water per day from Haryana amid the ongoing water crisis in the national capital.

Before the onset of her strike, the AAP leader met his party colleagues, including Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh and Sunita Kejriwal, at party supremo and Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal’s residence.

Atishi will also visit Rajghat at 11 am before the strike to pay tributes to Mahatma Gandhi who taught that the path of ‘Satyagraha’ has to be adopted to struggle against injustice, the minister said.

“I will start ‘Pani Satyagraha’ from today… I will start an indefinite fast at Bhogal, Jangpura from 12 o’clock until the people of Delhi get their rightful share of water from Haryana,” she said on X.

Here Are the Top Updates On the Delhi Water Crisis

• Delhi Water Minister Atishi began her indefinite hunger strike in south Delhi’s Bhogal at noon.
• Sunita Kejriwal, Delhi Ministers Atishi and Saurabh Bharadwaj and AAP MP Sanjay Singh visited Rajghat before the onset of the strike.
• Atishi on Wednesday said that she wrote to PM Narendra Modi over the water crisis in Delhi and threatened to go on an indefinite hunger strike from June 21 if the issue is not resolved within a couple of days.
• Sunita Kejriwal read out a letter from Arvind Kejriwal. “Our cabinet minister Atsihi ji is doing a satyagraha. It will be an indefinite fast and she will survive on water only. By giving pain to her body, she will do tapasya. She is doing it for the people of Delhi,” the letter read.
• Delhi BJP President Virendra Sachdeva accused Atishi of indulging in “theatrics” to distract attention from theft and black marketeering of water.
• BJP leaders and workers took out protest marches across Delhi on Wednesday over water shortage in the city, slamming the ruling AAP dispensation for the plight of the people.
• Delhi Water Minister Atishi said 28 lakh people in the city are not getting water due to the shortage.
• Atishi said that the Himachal government said it was ready to provide additional water which is to come to Delhi via Haryana, but the Haryana government has refused to do so.
• AAP Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh called on all parties of the INDIA bloc to support the AAP’s demand for fair water distribution to Delhi.
• Delhi Congress wrote a letter to Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena and sought action against those responsible for the water crisis in the national capital.