The Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) on Sunday claimed that the BJP government has abruptly withdrawn 2,000 buses from the city’s roads without any alternative arrangements, leaving commuters stranded under the brutal summer sun. “Long queues, jam-packed buses and hour-long waits have become the new normal during the BJP government regime in the national capital,” AAP’s Chief Spokesperson Priyanka Kakkar said on Sunday. Kakkar further asserted that the government plans to hand over tenders to its capitalist allies in exchange for bribes and commissions.
Addressing a press conference, Kakkar stated that, in this scorching heat, all bus stands across Delhi are packed with people waiting endlessly for buses. Under the AAP government, Delhi residents had to wait no more than one minute for a bus at any stand. Today, under the BJP government, people are being forced to wait for up to an hour.
Criticising the AAP, Delhi BJP spokesperson Praveen Shankar Kapoor has stated that AAP spokesperson’s claim of a bus crisis in Delhi is entirely misleading. Bus routes have been rationalised, and operations are structured.
The Chief AAP spokesperson added that under the BJP government today, every bus is completely packed with passengers. This overcrowding is the direct consequence of the BJP government arbitrarily removing 2,000 buses from Delhi’s roads without making any alternative arrangements.
Kakkar emphasised that being the national capital, Delhi’s population and number of vehicles continuously increase. According to a report published in 2017, Delhi had become the fourth most congested capital in the world in terms of traffic. Thanks to the efforts of the Arvind Kejriwal government, by 2024, Delhi was brought down from the fourth position to the 44th most congested city globally.
