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Punjab: Farm Fires Continue Unabated, Push Delhi's Air Quality To Worst This Year

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The BJP is lashing out at Punjab government and state's ruling Aam Aadmi Party, accusing it of being in a 'deep slumber' over polluting farm fires.

Farm fires have continued unabated in Punjab despite criticism and efforts at awareness, driving the air quality in Delhi to the worst this year on Tuesday.

Farmers burn farm stubble in Punjab every year, which worsens the air quality in North India, particularly in Delhi, as smoke and polluted air from Punjab travels to other places. 

A total of 1,842 cases of stubble burning recorded on Tuesday even as the state's Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government has been drawing the ire of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

Delhi recorded the air quality index (AQI) of 424 at 4 pm on Tuesday, worst since December 26 last year when it was 459.

NASA's satellite images showed a dense cluster of red dots denoting farm fires in Punjab and parts of Haryana, and a layer of smoke blanketing huge swathes of the Indo-Gangetic plains from east Pakistan to east Uttar Pradesh.

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