New Delhi, Nov. 4 -- Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee president Devender Yadav on Monday criticised the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in Delhi and questioned CM Rekha Gupta for "failing" to deliver on its ambitious promises to curb air pollution, eight months after taking office.
Yadav pointed to the BJP's manifesto for the Delhi Assembly elections, in which the party pledged to "reduce PM2.5 and PM10 levels by half" and launch the "Delhi Clean Air Mission" aimed at halving the city's average Air Quality Index (AQI) and reducing the number of days with poor air quality.
"The BJP promised to deploy road-sweeping machines in every Assembly constituency and water-sprinkling machines in every Municipal Corporation ward, along with a...