Governance
Manoj Tiwari's Yamuna Dip: Half Is Clean. Guess Which Half
The Take
BJP MP Manoj Tiwari bathed at Sonia Vihar and said the BJP "has cleaned half of the river in one-and-a-half years." That's upstream. In September the pollution board found 1,300 sewage bacteria per 100 ml at Wazirabad, and 35,000 downstream. Delhi's Water Minister says, "We have never claimed that the Yamuna has been completely cleaned."
The Wire
BJP MP Manoj Tiwari bathed in the Yamuna at Delhi's Sonia Vihar ghat on 29 October and said the BJP had cleaned half the river in 18 months, OneIndia and The Tribune reported. Delhi BJP dared Arvind Kejriwal to take a dip too.
Why it matters
Delhi's ruling party is selling a Yamuna clean-up from the stretch that was already the cleanest.
The receipts
Source: OneIndia