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A ‘Shadow Cabinet’ consisting of former Ministers of the Sheila Dikshit-era Congress government on Wednesday deliberated upon what it termed “life-threatening air pollution” in the city accusing both the AAP Delhi government and the BJP-led Centre of “deliberate neglect and inaction”.
Delhi Congress president Arvinder Singh Lovely chaired the meeting questioning why both the Central and Delhi governments had not bothered to find a lasting solution to the issue.
“Neither has the Centre convened a session of Parliament nor the Delhi government that of the Assembly, as required in a democracy, to discuss the toxic air pollution… leaders of both are busy in election campaigning in other states instead of tackling Delhi’s woes,” Lovely alleged.
The Shadow Cabinet meeting included former Delhi Congress Ministers Haroon Yusuf, Kiran Walia, Mangat Ram Singhal, Raj Kumar Chauhan, and Ramakant Goswami among others.
Following the meeting, two resolutions were passed: to request Delhi L-G VK Saxena and Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to convene an all-party meeting to discuss air pollution and to set up a high-powered monitoring committee headed by a Supreme Court judge, environmental experts, and civil society experts to tackle the issue.
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