India, Dec. 18 -- The Delhi government on Thursday said that it was because the erstwhile AAP-led government "failed" to fulfil any of the pollution-related tasks that tackling the problem presently is becoming a big problem. Amid mounting air pollution concerns due to a spike in the Air Quality Index (AQI) in the city, Delhi minister Parvesh Verma held a press conference in which he presented a big stack of tasks that the former government should have completed.

"If the AAP government had even done half of these tasks, we would have had to do only the remaining ones... But Arvind Kejriwal and the AAP government have not done even a single task in the last 11 years...," Verma said.

The tasks listed by the state government during the pre...