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In a controversial conclusion to Lionel Messi's India tour, Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta was reportedly booed at the Arun Jaitley Stadium. An India Today reporter on the ground confirmed witnessing 'two instances of resentment' directed specifically at the Chief Minister. The first occurred as she approached the podium, and the second as she left after felicitating Messi, Rodrigo de Paul, and Luis Suarez. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) claims the chants were related to the city's poor Air Quality Index (AQI). The reporter stated, 'The booing did happen and it was very much directed at the Delhi chief minister.'

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00:00And now we have news coming in from Delhi.
00:08Delhi CM Rekha Gupta booted at Arunjaitli Stadium in Delhi.
00:12Aam Admi Party claims AQI chance against Delhi CM at Messi's event.
00:18Aam Admi Party says Delhi CM booted at Messi's event over poor AQI.
00:23Aam Admi Party says tired Delhiites booted Rekha Gupta over poor air quality.
00:28Remember Messi was wrapping up his tour, his India tour in Delhi.
00:32And Aam Admi Party claims that Delhiites booted Rekha Gupta were poor air quality.
00:37Listen in.
00:58So these were the videos wherein you could hear the chants of poor AQI being shouted,
01:08being chanted at the stadium where Rekha Gupta was meeting Messi as he's wrapping up his
01:12India tour.
01:13For more on that we have Harshit joining us.
01:16Harshit you were on the ground.
01:17Tell us about how the event unfolded.
01:19So there is only one thing that I can confirm with a great deal of certainty and this is
01:26basis my experience throughout the day.
01:28I had gone to the stadium at 10 in the morning.
01:30I exited it in the evening 6.30 after everything got wrapped up.
01:36There were two instances of resentment that I heard.
01:39There were two instances throughout the day which was in many ways a day full of celebration,
01:44full of vibrancy.
01:44There were only two moments in which I heard there being some sort of resentment and those
01:49were boos.
01:50Those were boos that were very clearly audible for everyone who was there inside the stadium
01:56and both those instances involved the Delhi Chief Minister.
01:59The moment that the Chief Minister crossed the rope and made her way towards the podium,
02:04that's where there was a brief moment of booing.
02:06The other instance was after having spent a few minutes on the stage felicitating not just
02:11Leo Messi but Rodrigo de Paul and Luis Suarez and then there was some photo of that happened
02:17as well after those few minutes that the Chief Minister then had spent at the podium and was
02:21then coming off it again crossing the rope and going outside the stadium.
02:26That was the second instance of there being booing.
02:30So yes, the booing did happen and it was very much directed at the Delhi Chief Minister.
02:35Right, so at least two instances of booing witnessed at the Delhi Stadium where Rekha Gupta was meeting
02:42Messi as he was wrapping up his India tour.
02:44Thank you so much for joining in, Harshit.
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