New Delhi, Oct. 28 -- A controversy erupted after the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) alleged that a planned Chhath Puja photoshoot of Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Delhi's Vasudev Ghat was cancelled following reports that a "fake Yamuna" had been created for the event.
Addressing a press conference in Delhi, AAP's Delhi unit president Saurabh Bharadwaj said that the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) had inspected the site and arrangements were completed for Modi's participation in the ritual. "The BJP government wanted to showcase a clean Yamuna before the Bihar elections by creating a set resembling filtered water," Bharadwaj claimed.
He alleged that cameras were to be positioned at select locations to project an image of a clean river and that onl...