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CM Amarinder Singh ridicules Kejriwal’s statement blaming Punjab for pollution in Delhi
Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Sunday took a dig over his Delhi counterpart Arvind Kejriwal’s claim that stubble burning in Punjab was solely responsible for the high pollution levels in the national capital and ridiculed the nonsensical claim.
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In a statement, Captain Amarinder Singh came out with a series of hard facts to rubbish Kejriwal’s ludicrous statement, which he trashed as yet another attempt by the Delhi Chief Minister to divert public attention for his own government’s abysmal failure on all counts.
“Having failed to deliver on governance to the people of Delhi, Kejriwal was, as usual, trying to take refuge in falsehoods and fabrications,” Captain Amarinder Singh said. Lambasting Kejriwal for his preposterous logic that the satellite pictures of stubble burning in Punjab was proof of it being the primary cause of the Delhi’s severe pollution, Captain Amarinder Singh said even a school kid would know better. “Can he (Kejriwal) really be an IIT graduate?” asked the Punjab Chief Minister, pointing to the sheer irrationality of his Delhi counterpart’s reasoning.
Kejriwal has the audacity to call the picture scientific proof of his demented logic, observed Captain Amarinder Singh, adding that, had the Delhi Chief Minister bothered to check the data, he would have thought a hundred times before coming out with such a reckless statement.
Captain Amarinder Singh demolished Kejriwal’s illogical and ridiculous claim with recorded factual data and warned that the people of Punjab would not take politely to the AAP leader’s attempts to pin the blame for his own failures on their state. “He will see in the Lok Sabha elections what Punjab thinks of him and his AAP,” said the Chief Minister, asking Kejriwal to be prepared for treatment worse than what he saw in the state in last year’s Assembly polls.
CM Amarinder Singh pointed out that the Air Quality Index (AQI) of Delhi remains more than 300+ even during December and January every year, when there is no stubble burning in the neighboring States. “This clearly indicates that the New Delhi environment is impacted by its own sources within Delhi, which are predominantly vehicular emission, construction activities, industrial activities, power plants, burning of Municipal Solid Waste and sweeping activities,” he added.
What is more, the increase in the concentration of PM2.5 due to stubble burning is proportionately less as compare to PM10. Thus, the contribution of stubble fire in the increase of PM2.5 is less, whereas, the Ambient Air Quality in Delhi witnesses an increase in the PM2.5 during the winter months, observed Captain Amarinder Singh.
Captain Amarinder Singh asserted that had stubble burning been the reason for Ambient Air Quality deterioration then it should have impacted the air quality index of the cities of Punjab in the first place. However, it had been observed that the average AQI of Punjab during October, 2018 was 117, while the average AQI of Delhi hovered around 270. Most of the cities in Punjab have witness clear climate with long distance visibility, in sharp contrast to Delhi, he added.
The data clearly indicated that Kejriwal’s government in Delhi had failed completely in addressing the problem of pollution in the national capital, said Captain Amarinder Singh, adding that the Delhi Chief Minister was, quite obviously, hunting for scapegoats to put the blame for his own failures.
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