New Delhi Mar 28 PTI Delhi Assembly Speaker Ram Niwas Goel on Monday suspended three BJP MLAs for the day amid vociferous protest by the AAP over derogatory remarks made by Delhi BJP president Adesh Kumar Gupta against Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal MLAs Anil Bajpai Jitender Mahajan and Ajay Mahawar were told to leave after they stood on the benches even as the Speaker requested them to sit down Following this the proceedings of the House were adjourned for 15 minutes the second time since the House first met in the morning Earlier as soon as the House assembled in the morning AAP MLAs entered the well of the House shouting slogans over the BJP leaders remarks against Kejriwal AAP MLA Mohinder Goel demanded an apology from Gupta and a censure motion against him A censure motion needs to be brought in the House against the Delhi BJP president for his derogatory remark against the chief minister The Leader of Opposition should tender an apology he said PTI VITGVS CJ CJ

Panaji (Goa) [India], January 20 (ANI): Soon after the BJP announced its candidate list for Goa assembly elections which excluded the name of Utpal Parrikar, son of late Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar, the AAP national convener and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal offered an AAP ticket to Utpal.

New Delhi [India], January 9 (ANI): Ahead of the upcoming assembly elections, Delhi Chief Minister and AAP convenor Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday addressed the party workers and encouraged them to carry out door-to-door campaign by adhering to the guidelines laid down by the Election Commission.

New Delhi Nov 18 PTI Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday said his government is working on a war footing on a six-point action plan to clean the Yamuna by February 2025The chief minister said he will deliver on the promise he made before the 2019 Assembly polls to clean the Delhi stretch of the riverIt took the Yamuna 70 years to become so polluted The damage done in 70 years cannot be undone in just two days I had made a promise that I will clean the Yamuna in Delhi by the next Assembly polls and will take a dip in it along with all of you he said at a press conferenceWe are working on a war footing to clean the Yamuna There are six specific action points to achieve this and I am personally monitoring the progress the Aam Aadmi Party AAP leader saidHe said the government is constructing new sewage treatment plants STPs as well as increasing the capacity of the existing ones and upgrading thoseThis will increase our sewage treatment capacity from around 600 million gallons of waste water a day to 750-800 MGD Kejriwal saidHe said the waste water from four major drains falling in the Yamuna -- Najafgarh Badshahpur Supplementary and Ghazipur -- is being treated in situThe city government will shut down the industries discharging industrial waste into the Yamuna the chief minister saidThe waste water in the jhuggi jhopri clusters flows through the storm water drains into the Yamuna These clusters will be connected to the sewer network Kejriwal saidThe AAP government will provide household connections in areas that have a sewer network Earlier the consumers had to get the connections themselvesThe city government has also started de-silting and rehabilitation of the sewer networkOur engineers and officers are hopeful that we will be able to clean the Yamuna by February 2025 with the implementation of the six-point action plan Specific targets have been set for each action point and I will personally monitor the progress Kejriwal saidDelhi generates around 720 million gallons of waste water a day The 35 STPs at 20 locations across the city can treat up to 597 MGD of sewage and have been utilising around 90 per cent of their capacityPictures and videos showing devotees offering prayers in the Yamuna on the occasion of Chhath Puja with foam floating on the surface of the river had triggered a political slugfest between the ruling AAP and the Bharatiya Janata Party BJP in DelhiThe 22-kilometre stretch of the Yamuna between Wazirabad and Okhla which is less than two per cent of the rivers length of 1370 kilometres from Yamunotri to Allahabad accounts for around 80 per cent of the pollution load in itAccording to experts the primary reason behind the formation of foam in the Yamuna is a high phosphate content in the detergents used in dyeing industries dhobi ghats and households in Delhi Haryana and Uttar PradeshThe poor quality of effluent discharged from common effluent treatment plants CETPs and STPs is another reasonWaste water from authorised colonies and settlements containing a high phosphate content reaches the river through untapped drains When the water falls from a height at a barrage the turbulence agitates the phosphoric compounds in the river which leads to the formation of frothFrothing in certain stretches of the river such as near ITO and the Okhla Barrage has become an annual phenomenon now in winter when the temperatures are low and the flow in the river is less PTI GVSGJS RC