Delhi Man’s Unique Protest Forces Govt To Clean 500 Metre Long Sewage Spilled Road

You will find that political parties are all about glorious promises before elections. One of the most famous and often used is the promise to promote a cleaner, greener, and healthy environment.

While pictures of newly renovated “advanced” cities tend to go viral on social media, it is from the aam admi that we get to hear about the real situation.

According to TOI, 39-year-old robotics engineer and entrepreneur Tarun Bhalla had been wading through sewage water for 8 months to reach his office located at West Delhi’s Satguru Ram Singh Road.

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Complaints raised by the employees of the office to the local officials went in vain.

Bhalla had to wear gumboots to work in order to walk through the stinking water. He revealed that prospective employees allegedly ditched interviews and walked back on seeing the jammed road.

The ones who suffered the most were the local vendors whose shops were surrounded by sewage water. Disgusted on seeing the filth, customers wouldn’t come near the shop. As a result, their earnings went downhill.

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One day, Tarun saw an AAP poster nearby talking about how CM Kejriwal had gifted his neighbourhood with a new toilet. And that made him snap!

He decided to take matters in his own hands.

“If they are going to put up posters, so will I”, he said. Tarun then went on to print three posters – one of each for AAP, BJP, and Congress which read “tum mujhe vote do, main tumhe kichad, dengue aur malaria dunga.

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He went a step ahead and organised an opening ceremony for the ‘open-air sewer lake’. He sent out invitations to local officials and also distributed free laddoos to the crowd.

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To his surprise, the event was attended by several local vendors and curious passerby. He made his 11-year old daughter inaugurate the event, asking her to cut the ribbon.

“She was hesitant to get into the mud at first, but I said keechad saaf karne ke liye toh kichad mein utarna padega na”, he said.

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However, when the buzz started to spread, within half an hour the PWD officers came and surveyed the area. And soon sanitation workers were sent to clean the area.

Within two days, the 500-meter-stretch road was spik and span, the sewers were fixed, and the posters were taken down.

हो गई है पीर पर्वत-सी पिघलनी चाहिए,इस हिमालय से कोई गंगा निकलनी चाहिए।सिर्फ हंगामा खड़ा करना मेरा मकसद नहीं,सारी कोशिश है कि ये सूरत बदलनी चाहिए।मेरे सीने में नहीं तो तेरे सीने में सही,हो कहीं भी आग, लेकिन आग जलनी चाहिए।The sewer line was fixed a day after the social media posts went LIVE. The #PWD folks show up within 30 minutes after putting up the posters. Shiv Charan Goel, Meenakshi Lekhi, Arvind Kejriwal – why do you need to force the common man to get at loggerheads with you? And next time pls send those new sanitation machines that you talked about.

Posted by Tarun Bhalla on Friday, March 1, 2019

“Clearly they always had the means to fix it, but didn’t bother until they were shamed,” said Tarun.

Talking about his unique method of protest he said, “I am not interested in being violent. I don’t want to grease the palms of some MCD officer to make this happen. As a common man, my strength is in numbers and having a sense of humour.”

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This is what the power of the common man looks like! Kudos to Tarun for his brilliant out-of-the-box initiative!

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