"Almost 9 lakh people were registered as construction workers by AAP between 2018 and 2021, of which almost 2 lakh were fake as per an investigation. Here, 65,000 construction workers had only one mobile number and this is how the fraud took place," Sambit Patra alleged.

New Delhi Oct 30 PTI Delhi BJP MP Manoj Tiwari wrote a letter to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday charging him with indulging in politics over Chhath Puja and urged him not to stop Purvanchalis from celebrating the festival on the banks of the YamunaTiwaris attack on the AAP supremo comes a day after the Delhi Disaster Management Authority DDMA issued an order stating that Chhath Puja celebrations will be allowed at the designated sites in the city except on the banks of the YamunaI urge you with folded hands not to do injustice to Purvanchalis Chhath is a festival of our faith Indulging in politics over it is doing injustice to Purvanchalis Tiwari wrote to KejriwalNo immediate reaction was available from the Aam Aadmi Party AAP However party MLA Sanjeev Jha also wrote a letter to Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal requesting him to allow the Chhath celebrations on the banks of the YamunaI have requested the Lt Governor to allow Chhath Puja on the banks of the Yamuna river because people who believe in Chhath Puja clean the ghats and the rivers before performing the rituals he said in a statementTiwari told Kejriwal in his letter that the whole Purvanchali community people from eastern Uttar Pradesh and Bihar in Delhi is hurt as the members of the community are used to celebrate Chhath on the banks of the riverEarlier the DDMA had prohibited the Chhath celebrations at public places including on the banks of the river in view of COVID-19 in an order issued on September 30Tiwari had spearheaded the Delhi BJPs protests against the Chhath ban by taking out a Rath Yatra to put pressure on the AAP governmentFirst you banned Chhath and supported it in the media and later wrote to the Lt Governor for permission to Chhath Puja Chhath may be a matter of politics for you but it is a matter of deep faith for Purvanchalis the North East Delhi MP saidPlease do not stop lakhs of Purvanchalis from offering prayers on the banks of the Yamuna he urged the chief ministerChhath celebrated after Diwali by Purvanchalis involves the offering of Arghya by fasting women to the Sun god in knee-deep water PTI VIT RC