New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Social gathering (BJP) on Monday slammed the Aam Aadmi Social gathering for blaming BJP-ruled Haryana for Delhi’s ‘extreme’ air pollution, saying the nationwide capital has turn into a fuel chamber due to chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and AAP’s “polluted politics”.
The Aam Aadmi Social gathering, which guidelines Delhi, claimed on Monday that the incidents of stubble-burning in AAP-ruled Punjab have plummeted by 50-67 %. “Punjab is 500 kilometers away from Delhi, Haryana is simply 100 kilometers away. It must be analysed what has the Khattar authorities achieved (to mitigate the air pollution menace),” the social gathering claimed on its official X deal with.
“Polluting BS3 buses come to Delhi from Haryana; they’ve been mulling shopping for 100 EV buses, however have not bought them; there are lengthy electrical energy cuts in Haryana which end in diesel generator air pollution; they haven’t created any stubble-dumping floor, Punjab constructed 9; Delhi’s inexperienced cowl is 23.6 %, Haryana’s is simply 3.6 %,” it added.
Responding to the allegations, BJP chief Shehzad Poonawalla claimed 3,000 stubble burning incidents had been detected in Punjab yesterday.
“Delhi has turn into a fuel chamber as a result of chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and AAP have polluted politics…Earlier than coming to rule in Punjab, Delhi’s CM used to say that there was air pollution due to stubble burning in Punjab. He mentioned that after AAP involves Punjab, the stubble problem will finish…Yesterday, greater than 3000 incidents of stubble burning got here to the fore in Punjab…What occurred to the bio decomposer and the machines imagined to be given to farmers a month in the past,” he instructed ANI.
Delhi BJP chief Harish Khurana mentioned, “Stubble burning in Punjab is without doubt one of the greatest causes for Delhi’s air pollution”.
On Monday, the general air high quality within the nationwide capital remained within the extreme zone. In accordance with the information issued by the System of Air High quality Forecasting and Analysis (SAFAR-India), the air high quality within the Nationwide Capital was recorded at 488, up from 410 a day in the past.
The air pollution management panel on Sunday carried out the ultimate stage of the anti-pollution programme GRAP that entails an entire ban on diesel vans. It has additionally directed authorities and personal places of work within the nationwide capital to make 50 % of staff make money working from home.
With inputs from ANI, PTI