As the national capital Delhi woke up to thick smog and ‘very poor’ air quality index (AQI) levels, residents complained of breathing difficulties and politicians hit out at each other over the recurring crisis.
Aam Aadmi Party leader Saurabh Bharadwaj slammed the Bharatiya Janata Party government in Delhi, questioning where is the artificial rain which the Rekha Gupta government had promised to tackle post-Diwali air pollution.
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“The (BJP) government lies. The government said that after Diwali, we would fix all the pollution by conducting artificial rain. Did artificial rain happen? No, my question is that if you could have conducted artificial rain, then why didn’t you do it? Do you (the government) want people to fall ill… The government has a collusion with private hosp