India, Dec. 9 -- Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convenor Arvind Kejriwal came down heavily on Delhi chief minister Rekha Gupta's "AQI is temperature" remarks, asking, "When did this new science come?"

The former Delhi CM claimed that his successor had "admitted" that water is being sprayed at the AQI monitors to keep the reading down.

"First point - The Chief Minister has at least accepted that wherever AQI monitors are installed, water spraying is being done there so that the truth about pollution doesn't reach the people of Delhi. In other words, a game is underway to hide the data and show "clean air," Kejriwal wrote in a post on X.

Arvind Kejriwal further asked for the "science" behind Rekha Gupta's "AQI is temperature" remark.

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