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As aerial prime successful the Capital continued to stay successful the “very poor” class connected Monday, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) continued its scathing tirade against the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government.
AAP claimed that BJP Ministers, including Chief Minister Rekha Gupta, are engaged campaigning successful Bihar for the upcoming Assembly predetermination adjacent arsenic the metropolis is choking nether a broad of “poisonous air”.
Lashing retired astatine the BJP, AAP Delhi chief Saurabh Bharadwaj in a station connected X said, “The Warrior Moms [a corporate of mothers warring for children’s close to respire cleanable air] person written to the Health Minister astir the alarming contamination levels. But during this wellness emergency, Delhi’s Health Minister and other BJP Ministers person been engaged successful Bihar for the past respective days.”
Taking to X, AAP chief spokesperson Priyanka Kakkar appealed to Ms. Gupta “now that you are done campaigning successful Bihar, delight wage immoderate attraction to Delhi too”. “Do you person immoderate program beyond blaming erstwhile CM Arvind Kejriwal?” Ms. Kakkar said.
‘Toxic mindset’
Former Deputy Chief Minister and AAP Punjab in-charge Manish Sisodia said connected X that “the information is, it is not Delhi’s aerial but the BJP’s mindset that has go toxic”. In a riposte, Delhi BJP president Virendra Sachdeva said earlier questioning Ms. Gupta and her Ministers for visiting Bihar for campaigning, AAP should clarify from wherever they managed to bring the “non-resident” Mr. Sisodia “just to contented a property connection today”. It was a jibe astatine Mr. Sisodia, who has been spending astir of his clip successful Punjab.
Mr. Sachdeva added that the BJP government is “responsible” and Environment Minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa is continuously moving with biology experts.
“It is mean for CMs and Ministers from antithetic States to question and run during elections. But present that Mr. Bharadwaj has raised this issue, helium should clarify – if it is incorrect for Ms. Gupta to spell to Bihar, what volition helium accidental astir Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann’s sojourn to Gujarat erstwhile Punjab was affected by floods, Delhi Leader of the Opposition Atishi’s long enactment successful Goa, and erstwhile Delhi Environment Minister Gopal Rai’s extended predetermination enactment successful Gujarat?” helium said.
Earlier successful the day, Ms. Gupta convened a high-level gathering astatine the Delhi Secretariat connected controlling aerial pollution. According to the Chief Minister’s Office, peculiar teams are being formed to instrumentality strict enactment against concern units and vehicles causing pollution. These teams volition taxable their reports each evening to the CM and Mr. Sirsa.
Air prime status
The Capital’s 24-hour mean aerial prime scale (AQI) was 309 (very poor) astatine 4 p.m. connected Monday, against 366 (very poor) connected Sunday, according to the Central Pollution Control Board’s (CPCB) daily authoritative bulletin
