While government teams conduct inspection drives in Bhagirathpura, families are grieving.
Sanjay Yadav, a tailor, says his 69-year-old mother started vomiting on the evening of 26 December.
“We took her to a hospital, but she died in less than 24 hours,” said Mr Yadav, whose 11-month-old son is also unwell.
His neighbour Sudha Pal’s 76-year-old father Nandalal Pal also died after a bout of severe diarrhoea.
“The tap water in our house is still contaminated and it stinks,” she says.
“The water smelt foul, but we never thought it could kill someone,” said Arun Prajapat, who alleges that his mother Seema died after consuming the contaminated water.
According to media reports, residents of Bhagirathpura had complained about the foul-smelling and contaminated water for more than two months before the diarrhoea outbreak.
When asked about this, local councillor Kamal Waghela of the BJP told news agency ANI on Thursday that Indore’s sewage and water pipelines need a lot of repairs and that work had been progressing in most areas.
Jitu Patwari of the opposition Congress, however, accused the BJP government of misgovernance and hiding the actual number of deaths.
“Indore has consistently given votes to the BJP but they have given poisoned water instead,” he told ANI.
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