Haryana Minister slams Punjab govt. over stubble burning; AAP hits back
The Hindu
Haryana Agri Min slams Punjab Govt over stubble-burning incidents.
Haryana Agriculture Minister Jai Prakash Dalal on Saturday slammed the Bhagwant Mann government in Punjab over the stubble-burning incidents in the state, prompting a sharp reaction from the Aam Aadmi Party.
In his post on X, Mr. Dalal shared statistics of farm fires in Punjab and Haryana over the last three days.
"We have demanded water from (Arvind) Kejriwal ji and Bhagwant Mann ji, not smoke of paddy stubble,” Mr. Dalal wrote in Hindi.
According to the data shared by the Haryana agriculture and farmers' welfare minister, Punjab witnessed 1,921, 1,668 and 1,551 farm fire incidents on November 1, 2 and 3 while stubble burning incidents in Haryana were 99, 48 and 28 on the three days.
Reacting to Dalal's statement, the AAP accused him of "spreading lies".
"Twenty out of the 52 most polluted districts in the country are in Haryana and even then the Khattar government is playing politics and blaming Punjab," Punjab AAP unit spokesperson Neel Garg said.
The Mann government in Punjab provided machinery to farmers to check stubble-burning incidents, he said.
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