NEW DELHI, Nov. 20 -- Castigating BJP MP Parvesh Verma's comments during a Parliamentary debate on pollution as unparliamentarily and defamatory, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) spokesperson Raghav Chadha said the remarks are "truly sickening".

On Tuesday, during a debate in Parliament on pollution issue, Verma accused Kejriwal of not doing anything to curb air pollution in the city and criticised him for blaming farmers of neighbouring States for the problem. He also said that earlier the Chief Minister used to cough, but now the entire city and members of the House are coughing.

Chadha lashed out at Verma, saying that the episode shows intellectual and cultural bankruptcy of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) that they have to stoop to a level wher...