‘Unconscionable, uninhabitable’: Shashi Tharoor questions if Delhi with ‘hazardous’ pollution should remain capital | India News – Times of India
Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Tuesday strongly criticised the government for its inaction over Delhi’s air pollution, labelling the situation a “nightmare” and questioning whether the city should even remain the nation’s capital. In a post on X, the Congress MP called it “unconscionable” that authorities have allowed Delhi to become the most polluted city in the world, recording air quality levels four times above the hazardous threshold. “This city is essentially uninhabitable from November to January and barely liveable the rest of the year,” he wrote, adding that despite his efforts since 2015 to bring experts and stakeholders together, “nothing seemed to change, and no one seemed to care.” Delhi's air quality has reached alarming levels, with the Air Quality Index (AQI) recorded at 488...