With Delhi Air Turning ‘Severe’, Punjab Should Stop Appeasing Errant Farmers - News18
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With Delhi Air Turning ‘Severe’, Punjab Should Stop Appeasing Errant Farmers - News18

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Delhi’s hazardous air pollution levels have created a Catch-22 situation for the ruling AAP. With toxic smoke from farm fires blanketing the capital, will it give priority to the health and well-being of the citizens of Delhi, or appease the farmers of Punjab? Farm fires raging in the green revolution states of Punjab and Haryana have turned Delhi’s air quality ‘severe’. The state’s long-standing power subsidy — a major burden on its finances — has become a sensitive political issue, and any attempts to rationalise it have been stymied by the influential farm lobby. Meeting the farmers’ demand for compensation is difficult, given Punjab’s debt burden of Rs 2.58 lakh crore.

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