Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) Chief Raj Tackeray has asked questions about the cleanliness of Rivierganga and the quality of the water, claiming that he would not take a holy dip in the river. “Come out of superstition and use your heads well,” Tackeray insisted on people while he questioned the cleanliness of Ganga.
During a program organized on the occasion of the 19th Foundation Day of his party on Saturday, Thakeray said that his party leader, Bala Nandgaonkar, had brought holy water from the recently closed Maha Kumbh in Prayagraj, but he refused to drink it.
“Bala Nandgaonkar had brought some water for me, I said, leave. I’m not going to take a bath. Who will drink that water? Covid is just over and people walk around with masks on their faces for two years. Now they go there and take a bath. Who’s going a holy dip in that Ganga? ” he said.
Thakeray made gestures and also said he saw videos of people rubbing their body and taking a bath in Ganga. He claimed that every river in the country was polluted, while such rivers were clean all year round.
“Faith should also have a meaning. No river in the country is clean, but we call it our mother. The river is not called a mother abroad, but it remains absolutely clean and all our rivers are contaminated. Someone bathes or washes clothes,” said the MNS chef.
He claimed that he had heard since the time of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi that the river would be cleaned. “Unfortunately that doesn’t happen. People have to come from all this faith and superstition and use their heads well,” he said.
Tackeray’s comments when the opposition parties came to the government of Uttar Pradesh because she said the Kumbh water was unsuitable for bathing. Minister -President Yogi Adityanath said, however, that the water quality at the Sangam in Prayagraj was suitable to take a dip and perform Aachman (Drink holy water).
Adityanath’s comment came in the middle of a row of a central pollution board (CPCB) report that alarming levels of ‘faecal coliform’ found bacteria in the Ganga in Prayagraj.
However, a new report from the CPCB submitted to the National Green Tribunal has said that, according to statistical analysis, the water quality during the Kumbh was suitable for baths.
The report said that the statistical analysis was needed due to “Varsters” collected in the samples of the same locations on different dates and at different locations on the same day, so that they did not reflect the “overall river water quality during the River Stretch”.
The report, dated 28 February and 7 March on the website of the NGT uploaded, said that the board had carried out water monitoring twice a week from January 12, including on favorable bathing days, at five locations on the river Ganga and two locations on the Yamuna River.
(with PTI entrances)
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