Delhi BJP spokesperson Praveen Shankar Kapoor on Thursday called out AAP leader Saurabh Bharadwaj for his remarks on the Delhi Fire Services (DFS) during a building collapse in the city, terming his reaction extremely shameful.
The Delhi BJP spokesman called Bharadwaj’s remark tthat the Fire Service personnel reached late at the Hauz Rani, Malviya Nagar fire on Wednesday deeply unfortunate.
He said the Fire Department received an emergency call around 8:48 am, and in response, after navigating the narrow lanes of the dense Hauz Rani area, the firefighting operations began at around 9:15 am. Several media personnel present at the site can testify to this fact.
The spokesperson further said that whether it was the fire incident in Palam, the tragedy in Vivek Vihar, the accident in Said-ul-Ajaib, or Wednesday’s incident in Hauz Rani, Bharadwaj has consistently blamed the Fire Service and the local police administration. But in reality, firefighters and police personnel risked their lives during each such incident to carry out rescue operations. He stated that nearly 10 police and fire personnel were also injured during yesterday’s rescue efforts.
According to him, while the DFS faces infrastructure shortages and several other challenges, firefighters still reach accident sites on time despite limited resources.
He said that 27 years of alleged corruption and misgovernance by the Congress and Aam Aadmi Party governments are responsible for any shortage of equipment and infrastructure.
Kapoor, sharpening his attack alleged that the AAP leader, repeatedly makes false statements, must explain why during the previous AAP government’s eleven years, not even a single firefighter was recruited in the Delhi Fire Service, while Bharadwaj should also answer how many fire tenders were added during AAP’s tenure.