India, Oct. 27 -- The political rhetoric over Chhath Puja in Delhi escalated on Sunday, with the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) accusing the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Delhi government of constructing an "artificial Yamuna" with "filtered water" at Vasudev Ghat, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to take part in the festivities. The BJP dismissed the allegations, calling them "political drama" and claiming that the opposition was objecting to cleanliness efforts at the riverbank.

Addressing a press conference on Sunday, AAP Delhi head Saurabh Bhardwaj alleged that the BJP had "built a fake Yamuna" by secretly filling a small stream at Vasudev Ghat with filtered water from the Wazirabad Water Treatment Plant, which supplies Delhi's dri...