Delhi Assembly Elections: Sandeep Dikshit slams AAP for air, water pollution in Delhi

“In 2013, 43 lakh radical utilized to commute successful DTC buses, but contiguous lone 41 lakh radical question successful DTC and clump buses. The numbers should person gone up to astir 60-65 lakh fixed the summation successful population, but it has dropped to 41 lakh. If these surplus 20-25 lakh radical are opting for backstage transports, it intelligibly adds to contamination levels,” Dikshit said.

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) convenor Arvind Kejriwal claimed successful a podcast that helium accrued 50 per cent sewage capableness successful Delhi, Dikshit said.

“In 1998-99, the full capableness of sewage attraction plants successful Delhi was 360 mgd. When Congress mislaid Delhi (2013), the capableness was 613 mgd. In 2023, the full capableness was 632 mgd,” Dikshit claimed, refuting Kejriwal.

“I blasted the AAP government’s mismanagement and dishonesty for the poisonous aerial and h2o successful Delhi. It is due to the fact that of the government’s incompetence that nationalist proscription has not been augmented successful the capital,” said the Congress leader, whose parent precocious Sheila Dikshit was a three-term main curate of Delhi