John Kerry tells IIT-Delhi students: You must have needed boats to get here

New Delhi: Delhi traffic jam turned out to be embarrassing for the city, as it didn’t even spare US Secretary of State John Kerry who is on a three-day-visit to India.  Kerry had to lecture the students at IIT-Delhi but got delayed by an hour.  "I don't know you all got here, you must have needed boats to get here," he said.   Earlier, his proposed visit to three religious sites in the city was also cancelled on Wednesday as heavy rains lashed the national capital since morning. Kerry was scheduled to visit the Gauri Shankar temple, Jama Masjid and Gurdwara Sisganj Sahib in the old Delhi area around 11 am. "The visit had to be cancelled due to heavy rains in Delhi," sources in the US Embassy said. Kerry, was supposed to visit the sites yesterday itself but it was postponed. The US leader has had a difficult time with the city's traffic since he landed on Monday night. His convoy was stuck on Satya Marg in Lutyens Delhi for an hour on Monday by a "spillover effect" owing to waterlogging in the main carriageways.