From the practitioners of Vote Chori comes a new instant hit -- pollution data fraud ! AQI monitoring stations are switched off in Delhi when the levels hit 500 so that the sensors can not record the actual pollutants content in the air during Diwali night. Water tankers spray water continuously for 24 hours in front of the stations to fudge AQI data and present a false impression of clean air. Another fraud from the storied house of the Bharatiya Jumla Party, I am surprised they didn't blame the Mughals and Nehru for the toxic air. What next ? A digitally altered clear sky ? I am wonderstruck by the double engine sarkar's low tech native intelligence powered solution to the AQI 'menace' but am also afraid that this might soon become best practice across cities as we and our children get endowed with permanent respiratory ailments and truncated life spans.
