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WATCH# | Delhi Environment Minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa visits Integrated Command and Control Centre (ICCC), Shastri Park, which is established to monitor air pollution. He says, Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann yesterday lied saying that paddy harvesting has not started in Punjab. As per data given by his govt, paddy harvesting is 70% complete. He also asked if smoke from Punjab travels to Delhi. I am showing present data showing pollution in Punjab; the figure is over 1100 in Bathinda, it’s over 1000 in Talwandi Sabo and similarly for other areas. My point is that the Aam Aadmi Party is playing with the health of the people of Punjab—and the health of their children. On the 30th Oct, the AQI level in Delhi was 60; on the 31st, it reached 117. Tell me, what happened in just three days that caused it to surge? There has been no new construction in Delhi, no new polluting vehicles have been introduced, and no new polluting industries have been set up. So, how did the air in Delhi become polluted? The air that the people of Delhi had worked hard to clean over the past year suddenly became polluted within just four days. And today, it is on the verge of reaching 350 to 400. On Nov 3, 584 stubble burning incidents were recorded in a single day in Punjab, this is a new high. This data comes from the Punjab Pollution Control Board itself, an organization where Arvind Kejriwal has appointed his own relative, an Aam Aadmi Party spokesperson from Delhi."