India, April 27 -- A war of words broke out on Saturday over the government's plans to install six new continuous ambient air quality monitoring stations (CAAQMS), with the opposition Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) claiming that the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was trying to manipulate air quality data by installing the stations in "green zones". In response, BJP minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa said the locations were finalised when the AAP was in power.

HT on Saturday reported that of the six stations, three are proposed to be placed inside lush green campuses - Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in south Delhi, Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) in south Delhi and Netaji Subhash University (West Campus) in west Delhi. One stati...