This report focuses on the escalating political blame game over the severe smog and pollution crisis blanketing Delhi. The key figures involved are BJP's Manjinder Singh Sirsa, who accuses the Aam Aadmi Party of orchestrating stubble burning in Punjab to defame Diwali, and AAP's Sourabh Bhardwaj, who refutes these claims. The Congress party’s spokesperson attacks both parties, stating, 'I will tell these two political parties to drown. Delhi is suffocating. It is suffocating because of your failure, your failures.' Sirsa alleged it was a plot to 'malign Hindus and defame Diwali,' a charge Bhardwaj called shameful. The Congress criticized both the BJP and AAP for what it terms a 'governance failure.' Meanwhile, Delhi's civic bodies are deploying anti-smog guns and sprinklers as the city's air quality remains at hazardous levels.
00:00Piers, as winter starts setting in the Delhi NCR region, it's the season of both smog and politics over smog in the national capital.
00:13And as the smog has been thickening over Delhi, so is the political blame game as well.
00:18This time, it's not just about pollution, let's tell you.
00:21It's about politics, it's about perception, and it's about Punjab.
00:26The Delhi Environment Minister laid the blame squarely on the neighbouring state, blaming Punjab.
00:31In an exclusive conversation with India Today's Rajdeep Sardesai, Manjinder Singh Sirsa, alleged that pollution is rising due to the Parali burning,
00:40calling it a plot by the Ahmad Bipati to malign Hindus and defamed Diwali.
00:46Sirsa insists that Diwali has no role in Delhi's pollution.
00:50Countering Ahmad Bipati, Saurabh Bhardwaj slammed the BJP for lying and playing politics over people's lungs.
00:58He calls this charge shameful, saying that blaming sick farmers is a sin.
01:04Farmers cannot plot to defame Diwali.
01:08On the other hand, Congress fires at both sides, calling the pollution crisis a governance failure.
01:12The Grand Old Party questions both the Ahmad Bipati and the BJP for what have they done for farmers.
01:19Meanwhile, on the ground, Delhi's civic body says efforts are on,
01:24from anti-smog guns and mechanical sweepers to water sprinklers being implemented across the national capital region.
01:31Thank you very much.
02:01We have also seen that in the previous report, our pollution is very low.
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