India, Nov. 1 -- New Delhi

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Friday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Delhi government of misleading the public with "false claims" of cleaning the Yamuna, citing an RTI reply that revealed all 37 sewage treatment plants (STPs) in the city were failing to meet prescribed treatment standards. The Delhi government dismissed the claims, saying that the report was of June and much had changed on ground in the past four months.

Addressing a press conference, AAP Delhi president Saurabh Bharadwaj said that the Central Pollution Control Board's (CPCB) inspection found faecal coliform levels hundreds of times higher than permissible limits in the treated water.

"When all STPs are failing, how can the BJP g...