India, Oct. 16 -- Yamuna is going to be clean for the ceremonial dips at the Chhath Puja at the end of this month, Delhi chief minister Rekha Gupta has announced - no toxic foam, at least. To that end, the BJP government is using several methods, such as releasing more water, and chemical defoamers that were carried to the riverbank in several large blue drums over the past couple days, sparking a "gotcha" reaction from the main opposition AAP, which is flashing a 2022 video to allege hypocrisy.

It's questioning how the BJP, particularly water minister Parvesh Verma, was terming the defoamer "poison" when the then AAP government led by Arvind Kejriwal used it; and is now seeing an anti-pollution "weapon" in it.

Saurabh Bharadwaj, the AA...