Shashi Tharoor tipped his hat in a uncommon reward for the “courteous” Delhi Lt Governor (File)
New Delhi:
As Delhi broke an 88-year-old rain file this morning in a much-needed respite from an unprecedented months-long heatwave and several other pockets of the town reported widespread inundation, Lt Governor VK Saxena acquired a uncommon shout-out from his political rival and Congress MP Shashi Tharoor.
Mr Tharoor, in a put up on X, posted a video of the road exterior his Delhi residence sunk beneath waist-deep water. Locals have been seen wading by means of the flooded street with sticks in hand to gauge the depth and any open sewers.
The Thiruvananthapuram MP in his standard inimitable aptitude wrote, “That is the nook simply exterior my residence in Lutyens’ Delhi. Woke as much as discover my total residence beneath a foot of water – each room. Carpets and furnishings, certainly something on the bottom, ruined. Apparently, the stormwater drains within the neighbourhood are all clogged so the water had no place to go. They usually switched off the electrical energy at 6 am for worry of electrocuting individuals. Warned my Parliament colleagues that I won’t make it there with no boat. However the metropolis managed to pump water out of the roads and I did arrive in time!”
Amazed and impressed that this tweet elicited, inside minutes, a cellphone name from the Lieutenant-Governor of Delhi himself! Shri VK Saxena was courteous & responsive and defined the constraints on efficient motion arising from the division of tasks between Union and… https://t.co/GdaDTwEkxJ
— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) June 28, 2024
Nevertheless, in lower than an hour, he tipped his hat in a uncommon reward for the “courteous and responsive” Delhi Lt Governor, whom Mr Tharoor referred to as a “conscientious civil servant”.
Replugging this earlier put up, Mr Tharoor wrote: “Amazed and impressed that this tweet elicited, inside minutes, a cellphone name from the Lieutenant-Governor of Delhi himself! Shri VK Saxena was courteous and responsive and defined the constraints on efficient motion arising from the division of tasks between Union and State Governments. He does perceive the principal downside lies within the failure to clear clogged drains usually and pledged to do all the things in his energy to make sure that is completed earlier than the following main bathe. Hats off to a conscientious civil servant!”
Delhi acquired almost 230 mm of rainfall between 8:30 am on Thursday and eight:30 am as we speak, marking the best 24-hour rainfall in June since 1936.
The torrential downpour introduced life to a standstill in a number of components of the nationwide capital area. Visuals confirmed inundated roads, lengthy meandering site visitors in most areas of the town, and submerged automobiles.
A portion of the roof of the departure complicated of Delhi Airport’s Terminal 1 collapsed within the early morning, killing one and injuring six others.
All departures from Terminal 1, which solely operates home flights, have been suspended until midnight, the civil aviation ministry stated.
Monsoon In Delhi Quickly
The monsoon is about to reach in Delhi by the tip of this week, the IMD stated.
Final 12 months, monsoon hit Delhi on June 26.
