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Pollution emergency: Why we don't hear enough in parliament, assemblies

Published on Nov 29, 2025 12:35 am IST

Delhi has recorded 23 days of 300+ AQI, making it the second longest toxic-air streak in six years. We’ve had 96 such spells, children can’t breathe, citizens are protesting — yet pollution isn’t a vote-winning issue. Why? In this video, HT's political editor Sunetra Choudhury looks at why parties across the spectrum hesitate to make pollution a national political narrative, what leaders like Rahul Gandhi, Milind Deora and Kiran Bedi are saying, why Parliament only rarely debates it, and whether growing public anger could force a political shift. If pollution is India’s biggest public-health crisis, then why isn’t it a political one?

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