Delhi CM Atishi said North India facing a medical emergency due to hazardous air quality
As per report while addressing a press conference here, Atishi said the BJP-led central government has been doing politics over the issue of pollution but has taken no step to check stubble burning in states like Haryana, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and madhya pradesh all ruled by the saffron party. Lauding the AAP-ruled Punjab, she said it is the only state where the cases of stubble burning have come down significantly. In BJP-ruled states, they have gone up, she claimed.Meanwhile Atishi said due to Delhi’s worsening air quality, the elderly are being hospitalised and children need inhalers and steroids to breathe. Delhi’s air quality worsened to the ’severe plus’ category on monday with the city recording an AQI of 484. Tighter pollution control measures, including a ban on truck entry and suspension of construction at public projects, came into force in the morning. The dense toxic smog caused visibility to drop sharply in the morning.Moreover it was only in march 2023 that Atishi, along with Saurabh Bharadwaj, made an entry into the cabinet. Atishi was given education, PWD, power and tourism, while Bharadwaj was assigned health, water and industries and urban development. However, over the next few months, Atishi rose in stature, “making several senior AAP leaders feel side-lined". Kailash Gahlot, who was an aam aadmi party (AAP) mla and cabinet minister until Sunday, did not decide to quit the party overnight. Instead, several incidents and decisions in the last few months, particularly after the arrest of the party’s top leadership, “forced him to quit".