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New Delhi, November 2
In a scathing assault towards Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav on Wednesday blamed him and his celebration for turning the capital right into a “gas chamber”.
Accusing AAP of “scam,” Yadav mentioned “Punjab, a state run by the AAP government, has seen an over 19 per cent rise in farm fires over 2021. Haryana has seen a 30.6 per cent drop. Just today, Punjab saw 3,634 fires. There is no doubt over who has turned Delhi into a gas chamber”.
“Scam is where AAP is. In the past five years, the Central Government gave Rs 1,347 crore for crop residue management machines to Punjab. The state bought 1,20,000 machines. 11,275 of those machines have gone missing. Money utilisation shows clear incompetence,” he mentioned in a collection of tweets as smoke from farm fires contributed as much as 32 per cent of the tiny PM 2.5 lung-damaging pollution within the metropolis’s air.
“Last year, Rs 212 crore were left unspent. This year, the Central Govt gave Punjab Rs 280 crore for crop residue management machines. So about Rs 492 crore was available but the state government chose to sit with the funds forcing helpless farmers to burn the crop residue,” he mentioned.
“The Chief Minister of Punjab has failed to even provide relief to farmers in his own turf of Sangrur. Last year (Sept 15-Nov 2) farm fires in Sangrur stood at 1,266. This year they have shot up by 139 per cent rising to 3,025,” Yadav mentioned, concentrating on Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann.
The minister’s fees adopted Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s inquiries to PM Modi over the difficulty.
Aiming to nook the BJP-led centre over stunning ranges of air air pollution within the capital, Kejriwal referred to as “pollution a problem of entire North India.”
“UP, Haryana, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh. The Air Quality Index (AQI) is almost equal everywhere. Did Delhi-Punjab spread pollution all over the country? Why is the PM not calling a meeting of all states on this?” he mentioned.
“The centre is not helping the farmers, only filing FIRs against them. They rejected our proposal on tackling stubble burning. There is only politics going on about this, no one is talking about the solution,” Kejriwal mentioned
The Commission for Air Quality Management had final week mentioned the elevated incidents of stubble burning in Punjab this yr “is a matter of serious concern”.
Along with unfavourable meteorological circumstances, paddy straw burning in adjoining states is a significant purpose behind the alarming spike in air air pollution ranges within the nationwide capital in October and November.
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