As the city remained engulfed in a thick blanket of smog, with visibility dropping sharply, the opposition Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) blamed the BJP government for the worsening situation.
As the winters approach, Delhi’s air quality has yet again gone for a toss with the AQI reaching 316 in the ‘very poor’ category on Monday.
According to the Air Quality Early Warning System (EWS), Delhi’s overall Air Quality Index (AQI) stood at 316 at 9 am. Delhi witnessed a minimum AQI of 176 and maximum of 314 in the past 12 hours.
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The AQI, however, reached hazardous levels in Gautampuri (408), Holambi Khurd Village (561), Maharam Mohalla (344), Mustafabad (380), and Shahdara (312).
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As the city remained engulfed in a thick blanket of smog, with visibility dropping sharply, the opposition Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) blamed the BJP government for the worsening situation and took a jibe on social media platform X, saying, “India Gate itself has disappeared in the smog in Delhi.”
“The government can manipulate AQI data as much as it wants, but the disappearance of India Gate behind the smog has exposed the BJP’s truth. Don’t fall for the government’s misleading figures. The situation is serious, take care of yourself and your family,” the AAP post read.
Earlier last month, AAP’s Delhi unit president Saurabh Bharadwaj had accused the Rekha Gupta government of manipulating AQI readings. He had also shared a video on X showing two trucks circling around the ISBT AQI monitoring station and spraying water, allegedly to alter pollution readings.
Meanwhile, according to reports, only nine of the 37 air quality monitoring stations were functioning in Delhi on Diwali.
The air pollution on Diwali after the Supreme Court allowed “green” firecrackers had surpassed the records of last two years, they said.
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