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Business News/ Politics / Policy/  Rahul Gandhi visits Deonar dumping ground, criticizes Narendra Modi
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Rahul Gandhi visits Deonar dumping ground, criticizes Narendra Modi

Rahul Gandhi says the dumping ground should be closed down

Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi visiting Deonar dumping ground in Mumbai on Tuesday. Photo: PTIPremium
Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi visiting Deonar dumping ground in Mumbai on Tuesday. Photo: PTI

Mumbai: Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday trained his guns on Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the “Swachh Bharat" campaign, alleging “lack of strategy and vision" in carrying out cleanliness drives as he visited Deonar garbage dumping ground where a series of fire incidents had erupted recently.

“This Prime Minister talks about Swachch Bharat. His government is in power here. There is a BJP-Shiv Sena government here and there is cooperation between them... So either the Prime Minister or the Chief Minister should do something. They should take action," Gandhi said.

“This dumping ground should be closed down and some strategy must be found out (to resolve the issue). Only talking of Swachh Bharat and doing Swachh Bharat are two different things. It is a sad affair," he told reporters.

“I feel there is no strategy here. There is no vision how to clean it though they have definitely given a slogan of Swachh Bharat," Gandhi said after meeting people living near the dumping ground.

The Congress vice-president, who was accompanied by Congress general secretary in-charge for Maharashtra Mohan Prakash and Mumbai regional congress committee chief Sanjay Nirupam, said he went there as party leaders wanted him to see the situation himself.

“I met the citizens here. One person was weeping. This (dumping ground) is damaging people. There is pollution here. Children are contracting tuberculosis. One child has also died," he said.

Gandhi said it is now up to the Prime Minister and the state government to work out a plan to clean this area.

“Mumbai is a symbol of India, a symbol of progress and there should not be such a dumping ground," he said.

Recently, two massive fires had broken out at the dumping yard, spread over 326 acres, leading to a thick blanket of smog in various parts of Mumbai. Nirupam had earlier said that Rahul would “review" Deonar dumping ground situation, which had recently played a havoc for the residents living nearby due to emission of toxic gases due to the fires.

Gandhi would also meet jewellers at Zaveri Bazar (jewellery market) in south Mumbai.

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Published: 13 Apr 2016, 01:54 AM IST
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