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 dealing with 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 can go to Delhi and examine this declare.

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

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

The staff 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 obvious from this report that Shivkumar’s assertion was extra political, not factual. The actuality is that hundreds of pits on the streets of Bengaluru are killing individuals day by day and rising 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 difficulty as an alternative of fixing the true downside.