Uttarakhand’s Joshimath collapse has started political turmoil. Congress has fired cannons against the ruling BJP. Hath Shibir has put Garua Shibir in the limelight in the case of landslides and cracks in successive houses. According to local people and many experts, the collapse could be due to the work of various projects in the name of development. In this environment, many people have raised their voices against projects like NTPC’s hydropower project, national highway connecting Chardham. In this atmosphere, an old video of India’s former foreign minister Sushma Swaraj’s speech in Parliament has gone viral. In that video, he is heard opposing development projects in Uttarakhand in the interest of protecting the environment. (Read more: In the middle of the sky, the blood came out of the mouth of the dead passenger, the emergency landing of the plane changed its route)
In this video of Sushma Swaraj’s speech in the Lok Sabha in 2013, she is heard saying, ‘There is a terrible attack on nature and environment in the name of development in Uttarakhand. This (Kedarnath flood) is the result of that. Who are we developing for? Who are we spending billions of money for? One day nature will rage and destroy everything. When will we open our eyes? Will not open his eyes after this disaster?’ BJP leader Uma Bharti tweeted the decade-old video of Sushma. Tweeting Sushma Swaraj’s video, Uma Bharti wrote, ‘A video of my elder sister and then Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha’s speech went viral and I watched it. Whoever made this video viral sent me back to the stream of Ganga. Listen to this video carefully. What will the flowing Ganga stream say? Flowing through ages, this virtuous stream (Ganga) is ours.’
It should be noted that the situation in Uttarakhand’s Joshimath is getting complicated. Cracks have appeared in over 600 houses in Joshimath, located in the Garhwal region of the Himalayas. The temple has collapsed. Asia’s longest ropeway has been closed for tourists. Several hotels have been completely closed. For the time being, the affected families have been ordered to move to safer places. There are fears about the existence of Joshimath. Joshimath has ‘sunk’ several centimeters in the past few days. Cracked houses and hotels have been identified and demolished. This town in Chamoli district is claimed to have been built ‘on old landslides’. This is the reason why Joshimath is faced with natural calamities again and again. In this situation, the soil of Joshimath may not be able to take the ‘burden’ of human development.
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