Delhi minister Gopal Rai alleges BJP instigated individuals to burst firecrackers

While the general air high quality of Delhi plunged to the higher finish of the ‘severe’ class on Friday, Delhi Environment Minister Gopal Rai has blamed BJP for the rise in air air pollution in Delhi after Diwali. After the Delhi residents defied restrictions to burst firecrackers on the event of Diwali yesterday, the AAP MLA from Babarpur alleged that Bharatiya Janata Party instigated individuals to deliberately burst crackers on Diwali to trigger air air pollution in Delhi. “Some people in Delhi burst firecrackers on purpose. The BJP is behind this,” the minister mentioned on Friday.
BJP के लोगों ने कल रात जानबूझकर पटाखें जलवाए जिसके कारण दिल्ली की यह दुर्दशा हुई : @AapKaGopalRai #DelhiAir pollution #DelhiAirPollution @amitpandayjourn pic.twitter.com/6rEEFGPIqJ— News24 (@news24tvchannel) November 5, 2021
In an interview with News 24, when the anchor had requested Gopal Rai about his opinion on the rise of air pollution in Delhi after Diwali, Rai mentioned, “Definitely, for last five years we have experienced a better environment, clean air and low pollution level, but the way the pollution levels increased after last night, there are two factors. Firstly, I want to congratulate all those who have acted responsibly and have not burst crackers on Diwali. But I want to say this clearly that people from the Bharatiya Janta Party has intentionally encouraged people to burst of firecrackers that have resulted in the increase of pollution after last night.”
The AAP minister blaming BJP for encouraging individuals to burst firecrackers is weird, as a result of the Delhi police underneath the central govt have been implementing Supreme Court orders on firecrackers, and have arrested a number of individuals caught with firecrackers. In truth, numerous supporters of BJP have blamed it for taking sides with the activists in proscribing and banning using firecrackers throughout Diwali.
However, Gopal Rai admitted that one other issue that induced air air pollution in Delhi is stubble burning, however avoided labelling it the primary issue. He mentioned, ‘Second factor that caused the pollution to rise was because of rain, the harvesting of paddy in the neighbouring states was delayed. We have seen the data from NASA, before 31st October, there were fires in approximately 800 to 1000 places. But if you see last night picture, there were fires in approximately 3500 places due to stubble burning. The wind has also changed direction from east to west…’
Notably, in line with the Fire Information for Resource Management System of NASA, the incident of fires in Punjab and Haryana have gone up considerably within the month of October, which had reached its peak final week.
Source: NASA hearth mapsNASA has used purple dots to point incidents of fireplace caught by satellites. A have a look at the maps from thirty first October and fifth November present that just about your complete state of Punjab was coated with purple dots, which meant that crop residues have been burnt at nearly all of the farmland within the state earlier than Diwali. Similarly, a big portion of Haryana was additionally coated with such purple dots indicating hearth.
Reportedly, the share of stubble burning in air air pollution in Delhi had reached 36% on Friday, the very best within the season to date. The wind course has induced smoke from Punjab to maneuver in direction of Delhi, and the native climate situation has meant that Delhi was coated with a thick layer of smog.