Goa, Nov. 3 -- The political tussle between the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over stubble burning in Punjab has intensified, with Delhi Environment Minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa accusing the Punjab government of deliberately encouraging farm fires to worsen pollution in the national capital.

The AAP has strongly rejected the allegations, accusing the BJP of spreading misinformation to defame Punjab's farmers and police personnel while attempting to cover up its own government's failure to control pollution in Delhi.

At a press conference, Sirsa played a video purportedly showing farm fires in Punjab and claimed to have brought copies of 271 FIRs registered in districts across the state.

He alleged that mo...