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Delhi Rain Updates: Delhiites woke up to a rain devastated city on Friday with a canopy at Delhi airport's busy Terminal 1 collapsing, killing one person, and many parts of the city inundated with water entering homes, submerging vehicles, and leading to miles-long traffic snarls. Meanwhile, Congress leader and Lok Sabha MP Shashi Tharoor recounted how the incessant rain flooded his Lutyens' home under a foot of water and nearly prevented him from attending the Parliament session earlier in the day.

Tharoor, the senior Congress leader, posted a video of waterlogging outside his residence and narrated that he woke up to find his home in Lutyens’ Delhi flooded, with every room under a foot of water. 

“Carpets and furniture, indeed anything on the ground, ruined. Apparently, the storm water drains in the neighborhood are all clogged, so the water had no place to go,” he said.

Tharoor, who entered the Lok Sabha, defeating the former Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar, joked that he thought he would need a boat to reach Parliament. 

“(I) warned my Parliament colleagues that I might not make it there without a boat. But the city managed to pump water out of the roads, and I did arrive in time!” the Thiruvananthapuram MP said.

The Delhi government has called an emergency meeting in the afternoon to take stock of the situation. All cabinet ministers and senior government officials will attend, officials said.

A video showed BJP Councillor Ravinder Singh Negi rowing a boat on a waterlogged street. 

"For the past month, we have been fighting to get the PWD drains cleaned, but the Delhi government did nothing. As a result, today, the entire city is flooded, and no arrangements have been made by the government."

He also attacked Delhi minister Atishi, who was on an indefinite fast over the water scarcity in the national capital and said, "Delhi government ministers are protesting about the water crisis, but on the other hand, they are not doing anything about the waterlogging situation. Drains are overflowing because they didn't get them cleaned ahead of the monsoon."

Attacking the AAP dispensation over the waterlogging situation in the national capital, the BJP also shared images of water entering Atishi's residence on Mathura Road.