As heavy rain lashed Delhi on Friday, inflicting extreme waterlogging and site visitors snarls throughout town, a Congress MP slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the flooding — pointing to the very infrastructure the federal government had celebrated.
In a submit on , Congress MP Brijendra Singh shared a video of him caught at a tunnel of the Dwarka Expressway resulting from waterlogging and stated that he had been there for an hour. The street gave the impression to be submerged within the video.
“The tunnel I have been caught in for an hour now was constructed by the Modi authorities at a price of ₹250 crore per kilometer. That is the very tunnel of the Dwarka Expressway whose inauguration Prime Minister Modi had described as a gear change in folks’s lives,” Singh stated.
Inaugurating the Dwarka Expressway in 2024, PM Modi had stated that it will change the journey expertise between Delhi and Haryana perpetually” and “will shift gear not simply within the autos but in addition within the lives of the folks of the area”.
Waterlogged areas, flights diverted
Heavy rainfall that lashed the nationwide capital on Friday prompted the India Meteorological Division (IMD) to raise the yellow warning for town to a pink alert, cautioning of extra downpour accompanied with thunderstorms.
Delhi’s turbulent climate impacted flight operations as at the very least 9 flights have been diverted between 3:30 pm to 4:30 pm. The Indira Gandhi Worldwide (IGI) Airport was additionally closely waterlogged on Friday after a number of hours of rain. Visuals from the airport confirmed folks carrying baggage trolleys via ankle-deep water.
Connaught Place and components of Lutyens’ Delhi have been additionally affected by rainfall.
Within the neighbouring Gurugram, Cyber Metropolis industrial hub, Shankar Chowk and Sheetla Mata Highway witnessed heavy waterlogging following the downpour, information company PTI reported.
Climate right this moment
Delhi is prone to expertise a “good” moist day on Saturday earlier than it will get utterly dry from Monday onwards, Weatherman Navdeep Dhaiya stated in a submit on X.
He added that there’s a risk of rains returning within the third week of September, nonetheless, he urged folks to “leverage” right this moment to take pleasure in good monsoon climate, whereas being cautious with waterlogged areas.
“There are prospects of some rains returning within the third week of September nonetheless it may be nearly as good as tomorrow therefore leverage tomorrow’s day to take pleasure in good monsoon in Delhi whereas staying away and cautious with water logged areas,” he stated.
Wetter-than-normal August
The newest spell comes after a wetter-than-normal August for the capital. Delhi recorded 354.1 mm of rainfall between August 1 and August 30 until 5:30pm, greater than 120mm above the IMD’s long-period common (LPA) of 233.1 mm for the month, HT earlier reported.
The town had additionally logged extra August rainfall in 2025 and 2024, when it obtained 400.81mm and 390.3mm, respectively. These have been the primary cases since 2020 when August rainfall crossed the LPA, with town recording 237 mm that yr.
