Delhi Air Pollution: Minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa makes big claim - 'AAP forces farmers in Punjab to burn crop' | Look

Delhi Environment Minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa accused the Aam Aadmi Party of forcing Punjabi farmers to burn crops and stubble before Diwali. In a press conference on Tuesday, Sirsa showed videos of alleged farmers burning stubble in regions like Tarn Taran and Bathinda. He said, according to PTI, “The Aam Aadmi Party, which has been running an incompetent government in Delhi for the last ten years, has been involved in questionable activities for the last four days… This footage is from Tarn Taran and Bathinda, notice how people’s faces are covered. Farmers are being forced to burn stubble while hiding their identities.” Sirsa also accused former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal of banning firecrackers in the region “to garner the votes of a particular community, to appease them.” He also claimed, “Since this morning Arvind Kejriwal’s entire team has been cursing Diwali continuously… Sanjay Singh and his colleagues have been tweeting since last night asking to stop celebrating Diwali. Aam Aadmi Party president is cursing BJP. Diwali is not BJP’s festival.” “It is a Sanatan Hindu festival, and why are you cursing the festival? Why are you using words against the festival? But to say that BJP is celebrating Diwali, to say that BJP is bursting crackers like this, to say that BJP is doing such wrong things, I feel very embarrassed…” he also said.