India, Nov. 9 -- As Delhi continued to choke a day after Diwali, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Saurabh Bharadwaj accused the government of "AQI data fraud", alleging that pollution readings were being manipulated to bring down the city's overall air quality index (AQI).

In a video shared on X, Bharadwaj claimed that the government had installed 20 new monitoring stations in open areas surrounded by greenery and was sprinkling water around stations in heavily polluted localities to lower their readings.

Bharadwaj alleged that the measures were aimed at lowering Delhi's average AQI. He claimed that water was being continuously sprinkled around the Jahangirpuri monitoring station to bring down its readings.

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