RLD threat to cut Delhi water supply

GHAZIABAD: Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) and Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) workers on Wednesday threatened to cut off water supply to the capital from the Gang Nahar regulator in Muradnagar if water and power supply to RLD chief Ajit Singh's 12 Tughlak Road residence in Delhi was not restored.
RLD state general secretary Ayub Ali said, "With so many politicians who have lost in the last elections still enjoying power and water supply in their government homes in Delhi, cutting off just Ajit Singh's supply is blatant injustice.If our leader's utilities are not restored, we'll sever Delhi's water supply at any cost." BKU district chief Bijendra Singh echoed Ali's statement.
The Gang Nahar regulator in Ghaziabad's Muradnagar block supplies 470 cusecs (cubic feet per second) of water daily to Delhi. Of this, 270 cusecs is supplied to Delhi's Sonia Vihar treatment plant and 200 cusecs to Bhagirathi treatment plant.
But even as hundreds of RLD and BKU activists started gathering in Muradnagar by Wednesday evening, Ghaziabad district administration and police declared they would not allow any disruption of water supply to Delhi. Senior superintendent of police Dharmendra Yadav said, "We've deployed several companies of the provincial armed constabulary and other paramilitary forces in Muradnagar. Police officers and constables have also been called in from neighbouring districts like Meerut, Noida and Bulandshahr."