{"id":61976,"date":"2025-07-29T16:36:29","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T16:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mavericknews30.com\/?p=61976"},"modified":"2025-07-29T16:36:29","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T16:36:29","slug":"just-10-minutes-of-rain-paralyzes-delhi-kejriwal-slams-bjps-four-engines-or-four-excuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mavericknews30.com\/?p=61976","title":{"rendered":"Just 10 Minutes of Rain Paralyzes Delhi, Kejriwal Slams BJP\u2019s \u2018Four Engines or Four Excuses?\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>New Delhi<\/strong> : A brief 10-minute spell of rain on Tuesday exposed the fragile state of Delhi\u2019s civic infrastructure, turning the national capital\u2019s most elite and expensive area, Connaught Place, into a waterlogged mess. Roads resembled ponds, traffic came to a standstill, and residents were left stranded and frustrated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Reacting sharply, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convener and former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal launched a scathing attack on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) via a post on X (formerly Twitter). He wrote:<br><em>&#8220;If this is the condition of Connaught Place, the heart of Delhi, one can only imagine the plight of the rest of the city. Just 10 minutes of rain, and the roads have turned into lakes. Where has BJP brought Delhi in just five months? Is this the speed of the so-called &#8216;four-engine&#8217; government?&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kejriwal\u2019s remarks were clearly aimed at Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta, the BJP-led municipal corporation, and the Lieutenant Governor, all currently under BJP control. He questioned why accountability was still missing when the entire governance apparatus rested with a single party. He highlighted that if such severe waterlogging could happen in Delhi\u2019s most high-profile locality, the condition in ordinary neighborhoods, villages, and slum clusters would likely be far worse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The AAP further criticized the Rekha Gupta administration, branding it as a \u201cgovernment of event management and photo-ops.\u201d The party alleged that in the last five months, not a single substantial initiative has been visible on the ground. \u201cPeople had hoped a new face would bring real change. Instead, Delhi has been left to stagnate \u2014 no drain cleaning, no flood preparedness, and yet, the BJP government remains silent,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kejriwal\u2019s post has also sparked conversations on social media, with users recalling how the AAP government previously undertook extensive pre-monsoon drain cleaning and flood-prevention measures that delivered results on the ground. Many are now asking whether this is truly the BJP\u2019s \u201cfour-engine\u201d model \u2014 where none of the engines pull in the same direction, but are tangled in excuses and blame games \u2014 leaving the public to suffer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the monsoon only just beginning, the early signs already appear to be a serious warning for the BJP government in Delhi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"hi\" dir=\"ltr\">\u091c\u092c \u0926\u093f\u0932\u094d\u0932\u0940 \u0915\u0947 \u0926\u093f\u0932 \u0915\u0928\u0949\u091f \u092a\u094d\u0932\u0947\u0938 \u0915\u093e \u092f\u0947 \u0939\u093e\u0932 \u0939\u0948, \u0924\u094b \u092c\u093e\u0915\u0940 \u0926\u093f\u0932\u094d\u0932\u0940 \u0915\u0940 \u0939\u093e\u0932\u0924 \u0915\u093e \u0905\u0902\u0926\u093e\u091c\u093c\u093e \u0932\u0917\u093e\u0928\u093e \u092e\u0941\u0936\u094d\u0915\u093f\u0932 \u0928\u0939\u0940\u0902 \u0939\u0948\u0964 \u0938\u093f\u0930\u094d\u092b\u093c 10 \u092e\u093f\u0928\u091f \u0915\u0940 \u092c\u093e\u0930\u093f\u0936 \u092e\u0947\u0902 \u0938\u0921\u093c\u0915\u0947\u0902 \u0924\u093e\u0932\u093e\u092c \u092c\u0928 \u0917\u0908\u0902 \u0939\u0948\u0902\u0964 <br><br>5 \u092e\u0939\u0940\u0928\u0947 \u092e\u0947\u0902 \u092c\u0940\u091c\u0947\u092a\u0940 \u0928\u0947 \u0926\u093f\u0932\u094d\u0932\u0940 \u0915\u094b \u0915\u0939\u093e\u0901 \u0932\u093e\u0915\u0930 \u0916\u0921\u093c\u093e \u0915\u0930 \u0926\u093f\u092f\u093e \u0939\u0948?<br><br>\u0915\u094d\u092f\u093e \u092f\u0939\u0940 \u0939\u0948 \u20184 \u0907\u0902\u091c\u0928\u2019 \u0915\u0940 \u0938\u0930\u0915\u093e\u0930 \u0915\u0940 \u0930\u092b\u094d\u0924\u093e\u0930? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8aum0sfBLr\">pic.twitter.com\/8aum0sfBLr<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Arvind Kejriwal (@ArvindKejriwal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ArvindKejriwal\/status\/1950149405522165808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 29, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi : A brief 10-minute spell of rain on Tuesday exposed the fragile state of Delhi\u2019s civic infrastructure, turning the national capital\u2019s most elite and expensive area, Connaught Place, into a waterlogged mess. Roads resembled ponds, traffic came to a standstill, and residents were left stranded and frustrated. Reacting sharply, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":61977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[142],"tags":[143],"post_format":[],"flags":[],"class_list":["post-61976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state","tag-state"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mavericknews30.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mavericknews30.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mavericknews30.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mavericknews30.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mavericknews30.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mavericknews30.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61978,"href":"https:\/\/mavericknews30.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61976\/revisions\/61978"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mavericknews30.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/61977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mavericknews30.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mavericknews30.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mavericknews30.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61976"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mavericknews30.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fpost_format&post=61976"},{"taxonomy":"flags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mavericknews30.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fflags&post=61976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}