Atishi goes on indefinite hunger strike as Delhi water crisis deepens

Delhi Water Minister Atishi on Friday began her indefinite hunger strike in south Delhi’s Bhogal to press on her demand for more water from Haryana. Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s wife Sunita Kejriwal, along with AAP MP Sanjay Singh and Delhi Minister Saurabh Bharadwaj, were present as Atishi began her fast.

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Kejriwal read out a message from the Chief Minister, who is currently lodged in Tihar jail, in which he expressed hope that Atishi’s ‘tapasya’ would be successful.

The Chief Minister said he was immensely pained by seeing on TV the plight of the people facing water shortage amid the ongoing intense heatwave, he said.