Kejriwal to surrender on June 2,Delhi Govt goes to SC for water

Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday said he will surrender before the police at Tihar Jail on Sunday. The Aam Aadmi Party chief, who is currently out on interim bail, claimed his body has lately shown symptoms of a serious disease.The Aam Aadmi Party chief said he will leave his house for the Tihar Jail at 3 pm.Kejriwal vowed that he would work for the development of the national capital from inside the jail.Arvind Kejriwal and several AAP leaders are accused of accepting kickbacks in return for formulating a liquor policy favouring the interests of a group of businessmen and politicians. He was arrested on March 21.
Meanwhile, Delhi government has reached out to the Centre and Supreme Court seeking additional water supply from Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, and Himachal Pradesh for a month amid a severe shortage in the national capital.In its petition in Supreme Court, Delhi said that the need for water has increased in the national capital amid sweltering heat.Delhi Minister Atishi also wrote to the Centre claiming that Haryana has not been releasing the required amount of water."Delhi is heavily dependent on water from the Yamuna river for its day-to-day demand for water. However, since the last few days, there has been a drastic dip in the water levels at the Wazirabad Barrage as Haryana is not releasing the required amount of water in the Yamuna river," Atishi said in a letter Union Water Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat.