New Delhi, Dec. 19 -- Delhi Home Minister Ashish Sood on Friday slammed former Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal over the city's pollution crisis, alleging in a press conference that the Aam Aadmi Party has treated Delhi's pollution as a PR activity to consolidate its political foothold.

Reacting to the claims of Kejriwal introducing scientific methods to combat pollution in the city, Sood said that the National Green Tribunal (NGT) had previously reprimanded him for the odd-even scheme and questioned what scientific measures Kejriwal has actually implemented to tackle the pollution problem. He further emphasised that he does not wish to politicise the issue of pollution.

"Some unemployed leaders were recently saying that Arvind Kejriwal h...