AJMER: Member of Parliament Raghu Sharma, commenting on the issue of the Bisalpur dam crisis, said on Saturday that the scarcity of drinking water has come up because of the lack of a vision in the present BJP state government. He said that the BJP lacks planning to manage the water in the dam and therefore such a crisis has emerged.Talking to TOI, Sharma said that, “The new state government that will come to power, will face acute water crisis in the coming summer and that is because this government has failed to provide basic facilities to the people.”Sharma added that although the BJP announced building smart cities in Rajasthan , but it has forgotten that water management and 24-hour water supply to people, is the first step towards building a smart city The MP said that he has asked a question on the water crisis in Parliament and had also asked the state government to make a program to save water.On being questioned about how would the Congress, if it comes to power, manage if there is not enough rain this year in the catchment region of Bisalpur dam, Sharma said that, on the issue of water, no one should do politics and looking at the present condition, it is important to make a contingency program. “Area wise, Rajasthan is ten percent of the nation, but has only one percent of its water resources. Dark zone is increasing and there will come a time when people will face problems of lack of quality water.”He said that the Bisalpur dam is the vision of the Congress government of that time. For Jaipur, the best source of water was Ramgarh, but that resource has now dried up because of encroachment. “The state government should come up with a plan to harness rain water at traditional sources, but in that name, they started Jal Sawalamban, that failed completely,” he added.Sharma said that the people of Rajasthan are already facing the problem of a hike in petrol rates and they will now have to face a water crisis.On the question that the BJP has accused that he is using his MP fund mainly in Kekeri state assembly constituency and not throughout the district, he said that the BJP should first explain what they had done with their MLA fund.

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