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Delhi Air Pollution: Amid worsened air quality in Delhi, the opposition parties, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and Congress, took a dig at the Rekha Gupta-led BJP government. While sharing a photo of the faintly visible India Gate on X (formerly Twitter), the AAP stated that the structure has completely “disappeared" due to the poor visibility. The major opposition party of the national capital also claimed that the government was tampering with the Air Quality Index (AQI). Delhi’s air quality continued to remain in the ‘very poor’ category on Monday, with an AQI of 324 recorded at 6 AM, according to data from the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB).

“India Gate has disappeared in Delhi…No matter how much the government tampers with the AQI, India Gate has exposed the BJP's true colors by vanishing behind the smog,” AAP's Delhi unit stated in its post. Apart from this, party leader Saurabh Bhardwaj stated that the government was hiding the real data, adding that most of the mobile applications take data from the government sites.

“The AQI you see on your mobile phones, most apps take data from the Delhi and central governments' AQI monitoring stations. If you see iPhone's Weather app, they only take data from the government monitoring stations - DPCC, CPCB, and IMD. Only some apps have their own monitoring stations, like the US embassy,” Bharadwaj stated while talking to the reporters.

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Apart from this, senior Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Sunday suggested the BJP-ruled Delhi and central governments to take "immediate" steps to control the damage. "Returning to the Delhi air from Wayanad first, then Bachwara in Bihar is truly shocking. The pollution enveloping this city is like a grey shroud thrown over it," Priyanka Gandhi stated in her post.

"It’s really about time all of us get together regardless of our political compulsions and do something about it. The central and state government need to act immediately, we will all support and cooperate with whatever actions they choose to take to mitigate this awful situation. Year after year the citizens of Delhi are subjected to this toxicity with no recourse," she added.

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