BJP MP from Delhi, Bansuri Swaraj, on Monday, raised the Old Rajinder Nagar incident, where three UPSC aspirants lost their lives due to flooding in the coaching centre’s basement and labelled it as the Delhi government’s “criminal negligence.” Describing the incident as “heartwrenching,” Bansuri Swaraj mentioned that water from drains flooded the basement of a coaching centre, claiming the lives of three students.

The BJP MP said, “These students came from Telangana, Uttar Pradesh and Kerala to Delhi to prepare for the IAS examination and to brighten their future. But with sadness, I have to say that they lost their lives because of the negligence, or I would say criminal negligence, of the Delhi government.” Labelling the death of these three students as “utter and absolute apathy of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP),” the first-time parliamentarian said, “The criminal negligence of the ruling dispensation of the AAP in Delhi has caused the death of these three students.”

“For the past decade, the AAP has been in power in Delhi but is not working for the people of Delhi. In the last two years, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), Delhi Jal Board and cleanliness of the drainage systems are under the jurisdiction of the AAP government, but they neither upgraded nor de-silted the drains,” she added.