New Delhi, Nov 28 (UNI) Following a social media post by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over Delhi’s toxic air, state BJP chief Virendra Sachdeva on Friday said that people of the national capital fully understand that the pollution situation arises every year in the city, and it is a result of the failure of the previous AAP and Congress governments to take concrete steps timely.
He said the past governments did not bother to conduct a study to determine the main causes of pollution over a very long period.
Sachdeva said that today Rahul Gandhi posted on social media expressing concern over pollution after meeting people, while a few days earlier, AAP leaders had also begun making political statements on pollution under the pretext of meeting a similar delegation of people.
Sachdeva claimed that residents of Delhi are shocked by former Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s statements on pollution, and want to ask him what concrete measures his government had taken during their decade-long rule, when pollution levels kept worsening.
He said the difference between the previous AAP regime and the present BJP government is clearly visible in the ongoing fight against pollution.
According to the BJP leader, while the AQI levels in November and December worsened every year during the past decade, he claimed that this year, due to the efforts of the present dispensation, the index values have been lower in the month of November, as compared to the previous year.
Sachdeva alleged that the AAP leaders are disturbed by the improvement in the pollution levels this year compared to earlier years, and are now making baseless allegations that the BJP government is manipulating AQI data.
Meanwhile, Delhi BJP spokesperson Praveen Shankar Kapoor said that AAP leader Kejriwal is now suddenly raising the issue of GST on air purifiers, but while in power, he was involved in alleged scams in the name of installing smog towers.
