Highlights
- How can you waste water like this, Bombay High Court asks BCCI
- Political will needed, it is an emergency situation, says court
- Court was hearing petition against holding IPL in drought-hit Maharashtra
The Bombay High Court had more sharp words for Maharshtra's cricket association today as it resumed hearing a petition against holding Indian Premier League matches in the state, which is reeling under drought.
Here are the top 10 quotes:
How can you waste water like this? Are you going to maintain gardens and stadiums when people are dying? Is this what you are saying?
How can you be so careless? This is criminal wastage. You know the situation in Maharashtra.
This is not about IPL alone. It is question of priority how state government is regulating. This is a question of political will. It's an emergency.
When you (the government) say water should not be wasted on Holi, and instead have a Dry Holi, was there any application of mind on use by IPL?
We would have thought the organisers would have woken up with the plight of the people on their own. The situation is getting worse day by day minute by minute.
The tanker lobby is also there and they sell at a premium. Even municipal water is sent by tankers and sold for Rs 900 per tanker. How can poor afford it?
Where do tankers get water from? Should the state government not inquire this?
When there is so much disparity, people with money can get as much water as they want. But people in Thane etc. don't have water for days. The anomaly we cannot understand.
Make an inquiry on what is source of water that tankers get. Is it municipal water or other source? And what is the plan regarding scarcity. Find out if the water supplied is non potable water or not.
Have you thought if it doesn't rain this monsoon what will happen?
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