00:00And now shocking Punjab farm fire numbers emerge. Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwan Taman defends,
00:05but here's the farm fire reality. Over 2,000 farm fire cases in Punjab till November 4th,
00:10which is yesterday. Which was yesterday and till yesterday there were 2,000, over 2,000
00:17farm fire cases that were registered in Punjab. Over 600 FIRs and 40 lakh rupees in penalties
00:24have been imposed so far. In Tarantaran in Punjab, that has recorded the highest farm fire cases.
00:32Tarantaran records 558 cases out of the 2,000 cases and Patiala has recorded 110 cases. So,
00:40there's clearly no end to stubble burning in Punjab, despite the Chief Minister claiming that
00:45there is no stubble burning that's happening in Punjab and that is not contributing to the
00:50pollution in Delhi. My colleague Aseem Bassi is now joining us with more details on this.
00:54Aseem, although the Aam Admi Party government and Chief Minister Bhagwan Taman are defending
01:00and they are speaking on stubble burning, how there's no stubble burning in Punjab,
01:05the harvest season has also not begun. But if you talk about the numbers, the numbers are
01:09completely different than what is being claimed by the government. Over 2,000 farm fire cases
01:14have been reported till yesterday. Well, definitely. As far as the politics is concerned,
01:21definitely the Aam Admi Party is saying that they are wrongly being blamed, they are wrongly
01:24being targeted. But as far as the numbers are concerned, the numbers are picking up. Last night,
01:28we were traveling between Salud and Patiala and we spotted farm fire at a couple of places and we
01:33reported as well from there from a highway that how farm fire was being done, a very, very black employee.
01:38Although the numbers have come down as compared to the previous years, but definitely it is not the case
01:42that it is not happening, but it is happening. However, the politics is much. The Delhi blames
01:47Punjab for the police in Delhi, whereas Punjab says that the Punjab government and the farmers
01:52of Punjab are defamed, are defamed wrongly because they have controlled a lot. And they even say that
01:57the harvest is even not started in Malwa and the human is saying harvest is even not started in Malwa,
02:03how can the smoke travel to Delhi? So one thing is very clear, the number of cases have come down,
02:07but shockingly, it's now more than 2,000 now already in Punjab, the stubble burning cases and
02:14politics is on peak over the issues.
02:17Thank you for those details. So on one hand, Delhi Environment Minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa was
02:22blaming the stubble burning in Punjab for the rising pollution in the national capital. On the other
02:27hand, Bhagwant Man hit back, the Chief Minister of Punjab hit back saying that the harvest season has not
02:32even begun in Malwa. Then how can you blame the farmers in Punjab? But now we have the reality,
02:36we have the numbers. Over 2,300 cases have been reported of farm fire in Punjab till yesterday.
02:43There are several FIRs which have been registered and in fact, there are fines that have been imposed
02:47and the ground reality is completely different to what the Ahmadine party government in Punjab is claiming.
