The Congress youth wing filed a police complaint in Delhi on Wednesday, alleging “theft of rain” and claiming that the Delhi government’s ₹ 1.25-crore cloud-seeding experiment had failed to bring showers to the city.

Delhi Environment Minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa, however, insisted that the cloud-seeding trials were successful and accused the opposition of being “jealous” of the BJP-led government's achievement. Also Read | Delhi air quality poor with AQI at over 270 day after cloud seeding trials

The national capital conducted cloud-seeding operations on Tuesday for the first time in 53 years to induce artificial rain amid worsening pollution levels, though the weather department reported no measurable rainfall.

The Delhi government, in collaboration with IIT-Kanpur, conduct

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