(NDTV)
Amarinder Singh, Punjab Chief Minister, has refused to meet his Delhi counterpart Arvind Kejriwal, who had tweeted him Tuesday morning requesting an appointment to discuss the deadly smog that has enveloped Delhi for more than a week. Mr Singh has reiterated his stand that a meeting will be of no use and said he does not have “the same luxury of time” as Mr Kejriwal.
Arvind Kejriwal has blamed the burning of crop stubble by farmers in neighbouring Punjab and Haryana as the major cause of the spiking pollution in Delhi. “Sir, I am coming to Chandigarh on Wed to meet Haryana CM. Would be grateful if u cud spare sometime to meet me. It is in collective interest,” the Delhi chief minister had tweeted to Amarinder Singh, who had last week called Mr Kejriwal a “peculiar person with views on everything but no understanding.”
The Punjab Chief Minister’s reply on Tuesday evening was tweeted by his media adviser Raveen Thukral: “Stop politicising the #pollution issue, you know any meeting between us would be useless, and in any case now that the apex court is also seized of the matter, let us leave it to them and the central govt to find long-term solutions.”
