Rahul Gandhi :calls on the government to submit a city-by-city action plan after bringing up air pollution issues in the Lok Sabha

Rahul Gandhi:  the leader of the opposition, brought up the issue of air pollution in the Lok Sabha on Friday and urged the government to develop a thorough, time-bound plan to enhance air quality in all Indian cities.

“A layer of toxic air covers the majority of our cities. Gandhi highlighted the serious health effects of polluted air, saying, “Millions of children suffer from lung diseases, people are getting cancer, and the elderly are struggling to breathe.”

He said that people of all political parties are equally concerned about the problem.

He said, “There is full agreement between the government and the opposition on this issue,” promising complete collaboration in creating a coordinated action plan.

“The Prime Minister should present a plan for every city outlining how, in the next five or ten years, we can make significant progress — even if the problem cannot be fully resolved at once,” Gandhi said, calling for an urgent debate in Parliament.

According to the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), Delhi’s Air Quality Index (AQI) hit 331 at 7 a.m., putting the city back in the “very poor” category. With an AQI of 405, Jahangirpuri was found to be the most severely afflicted area in the nation’s capital, placing it in the “severe” zone.

Rahul Gandhi presided over a meeting of the Congress’s Lok Sabha MPs earlier in the day at the Parliament House Annexe Extension Building. Shashi Tharoor, the MP for Thiruvananthapuram, was noticeably absent.

Gandhi received a briefing on a number of organizational issues during the meeting. He had “exposed the truth of vote theft before the entire world,” according to party officials, who also encouraged MPs to be alert and united as the party gets ready for a sizable mobilization in the nation’s capital.

Rahul Gandhi emphasized the significance of Sunday’s (December 14) Congress gathering at Ramlila Maidan in Delhi, describing it as “historic” and essential to the struggle for free, fair, and transparent elections. MPs were told to make sure there was a lot of involvement and to show up.

To honor former Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil, who died earlier in the morning, the meeting also started with a two-minute silence. Leaders recalled Patil as a dedicated, honorable, and moral public servant whose contributions to the politics of the country will go on for a very long time.