Delhi experienced severe flooding on Friday afternoon following heavy rainfall, which inundated various areas of the city, including the Indira Gandhi International Airport. In response, the government faced criticism from the Opposition and the Cockroach Janta Party, highlighting concerns over infrastructural shortcomings.
“Under the guidance of Narendra Modi, the facility of Beach View has been provided for passengers at Delhi airport. Now, passengers here are enjoying the waves of rainwater,” Congress wrote in a post on its official X handle. The Congress had a sarcastic remark over the waterlogging at IGI Airport, the country’s busiest airport which handles more than 1,300 flight movements daily.
“We found slow moving traffic from Iffco Chowk around 4pm. A 10-km-long traffic jam brought traffic on the Delhi-Jaipur Expressway to a crawl near the Delhi-Gurugram border on Friday evening following heavy rain, leaving hundreds of commuters stranded for hours, police said. The traffic started crawling near Shiv Murti in Mahipalpur, Delhi, and the tailback reached Udyog Vihar Phase-IV in Gurugram by 6.30pm, traffic police officers said. Now, its 6.30pm but we have not been able to cross the Sirhaul toll plaza on the Delhi-Gurugram border which is a distance of hardly about six kilometres,” he said, adding his vehicle was still 200 metres behind the plaza.
Narayan Acharya, a commuter travelling from Gurugram to Kathmandu in Nepal by road, told HT that he had been trapped in the jam for the last two and a half hours.
Passenger Experiences and Political Commentary Amid IGI Airport Waterlogging
Following significant waterlogging at IGI Airport, CJP founder Abhijeet Dipke made a sarcastic remark regarding the situation, linking it to the Centre’s recent GDP growth figure of 7.8%. This comment comes amidst ongoing opposition claims that the GDP data is misleading.
A passenger named Mansi shared her experience, stating, ‘I’ve never seen anything like this; there is so much water. I’ve been standing here for about half an hour now. I am waiting for the water level to recede a bit so I can head towards the arrival gates.’
