Union Highways and Transport minister Nitin Gadkari on Friday ordered National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) chairman Raghav Chandra to clear the busy Delhi–Jaipur national highway as severe waterlogging in Gurgaon held up traffic for hours for the second day in a row.
Gadkari, currently at his hometown Nagpur, called up higher officials of his ministry and ordered them to bring the situation under control. Traffic has halted since Thursday night on the Delhi–Jaipur national highway NH-8 which cuts through through Gurgaon.
NHAI Chief General Manager BS Singla, who has been supervising operations at the busy Hero Honda Chowk, said they were using six heavy-duty water pumps to end waterlogging in that area.
Singla said he was hopeful of clearing the highway for traffic by evening.
Earlier, Haryana's BJP Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar sought to deflect public anger by putting the blame for the traffic mess on Arvind Kejriwal, the chief minister of neighbouring Delhi.
Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party hit back at Khattar calling it an absurd comment, while the Opposition Congress slammed both BJP and AAP for the mess in Gurgaon.
As the blame game continued, Gadkari stepped in to prevent embarrassment to the Centre, and put his own men on the job.
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