New Delhi, Jan. 23 -- The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Delhi government was engaged in a tussle with opposition parties in the city on Thursday after videos showing waterlogging in northwest Delhi's Kirari area were shared on social media.

The controversy gained traction a day after visuals of flooded neighbourhoods in Kirari went viral, coinciding with public outrage over a fatal drowning in a water-filled pit in Noida's Sector 150 earlier this week.

Public Works Department (PWD) and irrigation and flood control minister Parvesh Verma addressed a press conference in the morning, where he blamed "a decade of neglect" under the previous Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government for Kirari's drainage crisis. Verma cited government records show...