India, Nov. 29 -- Former IPS officer Kiran Bedi on Saturday launched a sharp critique of how Delhi's pollution crisis is being handled, urging government officials to step out of "sanitised" meeting rooms, into the smog-filled streets.

Kiran Bedi, who was the BJP's CM face in Delhi in the 2015 assembly election, described the capital's worsening air as a "public-health emergency" and said on X, "Governance can't be remote-controlled. It must stand in the dust, breathe the same air, and act with urgency."

Her remarks come a day after she made a public appeal to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to personally intervene and direct efforts towards reducing the air pollution. In her message to the PM, Bedi recalled his leadership style during her...