NEW DELHI: The Delhi government has suggested that the Delhi Traffic Police are to blame for the pothole accident that claimed an motorcyclist’s life in Delhi’s Vasant Kunj neighbourhood on Friday evening. The accusations were made even as the pothole underwent restoration.
Comments made by Delhi’s PWD minister and AAP party member Satyender Jain were posted in a series of TIMES NOW tweets. “We wrote to DCP Traffic, Police did not allow repairs to take place,” he said. “We told the police that the potholes are liable to cause accidents. The police did not give us a reason, they did not even respond,” he added.
But a few minutes later, he added, “Where ever there are potholes in Delhi, they are always repaired.”
On Sunday evening, Delhi CM and AAP’s national convener Arvind Kejriwal re-tweeted photos of Public Work Department letters journalist Ashu Hasrat. The posts quote the PWD minister as saying that the PWD had written twice to the Delhi traffice police to ask them to “allow the maintenance of potholes”, and that even tough they had been warned of a possible accident, they had seized a PWD van trying to do repair work in various parts of the city.”
(Sourced from agencies, Feature image courtesy:oneindia.com)
