Pits outside PM Modi’s house too! How true DK Shivkumar’s claim? News18 investigation

New Delhi: The politics of pits in Karnataka has now reached Delhi. Deputy Chief Minister and Town Planning Minister DK Shivkumar, who’s going through a pointy criticism over the pits on the streets of Bengaluru, performed a brand new wager. He claimed that there are additionally pits close to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s official residence 7 Lok Kalyan Marg (7 LKM) in Delhi. He advised the journalists of Bangalore you could go to Delhi and test this declare.

The fact-check crew of News18 accepted this problem and investigated on the spot. The yatra began with Karnataka Bhavan (Kautilya Marg). Here a small uprooted patch have to be discovered, which had been a part of the continued work, nevertheless it can’t be referred to as a pit. As the automotive moved in the direction of 7 LKM, the image regarded fully reversed.

The roads of Lok Kalyan Marg had been very clean and clear. Outside the Prime Minister’s residence, safety preparations are so robust that roads are at all times stored right. No pit was discovered there as Shivkumar claimed.

The crew additional reviewed Safdarjung Road and Akbar Road (the place Congress headquarters). The end result got here out the identical – the roads didn’t discover any downside besides the preliminary patch.

It is evident from this report that Shivkumar’s assertion was extra political, not factual. The actuality is that 1000’s of pits on the streets of Bengaluru are killing individuals each day and growing site visitors difficulties. At the identical time, roads in these particular areas of Delhi are comparatively higher.

In politics, different cities or states are sometimes cited as a ‘counter -seminar’, however on this case Shivkumar’s arrow missed the goal. This case exhibits that the politics of pits is changing into a method of wandering the problem as an alternative of fixing the true downside.