New Delhi, July 13: With assembly elections round the corner, BJP today took a dig at chief minister Shiela Dikshit claiming she had no role in making Delhi pollution free. "Dikshit may have received the 'clean cities international award for 2003' conferred on Delhi by US Department of Energy, but she deserves only 5 per cent credit for the CNG initiative and reduction of pollution levels," senior BJP leader and Union Labour Minister Sahib Singh Verma said.

Verma, who shared the dias with the Congress chief minister at the inauguration of a CNG station here, asked "what has she done."

The credit for running the cities entire transport fleet on environmentally-friendly CNG should go to petroleum minister Ram Nar Dikshit stated that a coordinated approach between the Centre and state made the difference.


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The BJP leader today went a step further and asked for closure of thermal power plants in Delhi as they "pollute".

Chief minister (of Delhi) three new power projects were proposed - two gas based AOAL as feedstock. But the Delhi government shelved them," he claimed demanly natural gas based power plants be set up in Delhi.

Ironically, bawanandi gas power plants could not be pursued as Centre could not make natural gas allocation.
Bureau Report