"You are killing people here. You failed to clean the Yamuna in eight years and now add the chemical in the river. Go take a dip in the river," he tells the official even as the latter says the chemical is approved by the US FDA and Centre to control the foam. "Shall I pour it (chemical) on your head?" Verma further says. The DJB official, Sanjay Sharma, said he would take "lawful remedy".
Chemical in river: MP rips into DJB official
'FDA-Approved' Solution Used To Control Froth
New Delhi: West Delhi MP Parvesh Verma courted yet another controversy on Friday after a video of him shouting at an official at a Yamuna ghat ahead of the Chhath festival surfaced on social media. The one-and-a-half-minute video showed Verma threatening a Delhi Jal Board (DJB) official with pouring a chemical being used to control frothing in the Yamuna on his head.
While the official defended the use of the chemical saying it was approved by the Food and Drug Administration of the USA and National Mission for Cleaning Ganga of the Central Government for controlling the ammonia phosphorus foam, Verma stuck to his guns.
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