Former Delhi CM and AAP chief has received notices from the Election Commission and a court in Haryana over his claim that BJP is mixing poison in Yamuna water to cause a mass massacre in Delhi. While he had claimed that the Delhi Jal Board engineered detected the poison and stopped the water from reaching Delhi, the DJB that comes under the Delhi govt has denied the allegations.
But Kejriwal is not retreating from his baseless allegations, and today he proceeded to post a doctored video to target Haryana CM Nayab Singh Saini. Posting an edited video of Saini taking a sip from Yamuna, Kejriwal claimed that the Haryana CM did drama and he actually didn’t drink the water.
हरियाणा के मुख्यमंत्री नायब सिंह सैनी जी ने यमुना का पानी पीने का ढोंग किया… और फिर वही पानी वापस यमुना में थूक दिया।
— Arvind Kejriwal (@ArvindKejriwal) January 29, 2025
जब मैंने कहा कि अमोनिया की मिलावट के कारण यमुना का पानी दिल्लीवालों की जान के लिए ख़तरा हो सकता है, तो इन्होंने मुझ पर FIR करने की धमकी दी।
जिस ज़हरीले पानी… pic.twitter.com/xQEVAu9bWh
Kejriwal claimed that Saini pretended to drink water, and then spat the wated back into Yamuna. He added, “When I said that Yamuna water could be dangerous for the lives of Delhiites due to ammonia contamination, they threatened to file an FIR against me. They want to make the people of Delhi drink the same poisonous water which they themselves cannot drink. I will never let this happen.”
However, what Kejriwal did was post a clip of a longer video, and the Haryana CM did drink the water of the Yamuna River. As seen in the following video posted by ANI, it can be seen that Nayab Singh Saini first took a sip of water from the river, and then spat it out, perhaps he was rinsing his mouth. However, immediately after that, he took another sip, and this time he gulped a fistful of water.
#WATCH | Haryana CM Nayab Singh Saini takes a sip of water from the Yamuna River in Delhi's Palla Village. pic.twitter.com/v1rkJXrcbQ
— ANI (@ANI) January 29, 2025
As per reports, Saini visited the river at Delhi’s Palla Village, where he drank from the river to disprove Kejriwal’s claim of poisoning.
Notably, while Kejriwal said that BJP has threatened to file an FIR against him, a complaint has already been registered against him at the Chief Judicial Magistrate Court of Sonipat in Haryana. The BJP govt in Haryana lodged the complaint demanding action against him. Accordingly, the court issued a summon to Kejriwal and asked him to appear in the court on 17 February.
The Election Commission of India also has asked Arvind Kejriwal to furnish evidence on his claim that the BJP-led Haryana government poisoned the Yamuna water supply to Delhi, after BJP lodged a complaint against him.
Notably, the Delhi Jal Board has already busted Kejriwal’s claims over Ammonia level in the river explaining that it is a natural phenomenon. DBJ called his claims “factually incorrect, without any basis and misleading.” The board added that the Ammonia level increases in the Yamuna water every year between October and February due to a decrease in water level.
