India, March 29 -- Hundreds of residents of Jagatpur village in Burari took to the streets on Thursday night, blocking the Outer Ring Road for over three hours in protest against a prolonged power outage. The demonstration, which lasted from 8pm to 11pm, brought peak-hour traffic to a standstill, leaving commuters stranded as protesters demanded the immediate restoration of electricity.

The outage also ignited a political spat between the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Delhi government. While AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal claimed that Delhi had not experienced such outages during his tenure, Delhi's power minister Ashish Sood countered by sharing data on power disruptions under AAP's rule, accusing Kejriwal of...