There’s got to be enough politicians who care about air quality: Shashi Tharoor

"My colleagues may not disagree with me when I say that none of us has actually experienced an issue where voters are going to vote or not vote for us because of our stand on air quality," the Congress leader said.

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Thursday expressed disappointment over the “very limited” discussion on air quality in Parliament and said there should be enough people in the political space who care about this issue.

The lack of the discussion, he said, could be because air quality is not a determinant of votes in India.

Air quality issue has affected elections in other democracies, but in India, one would be hard-pressed to think of one electoral race at any level in which air quality has figured as a politically salient issue and has been determinant in terms of people’s votes, Tharoor said during a round table consultation on ‘energy transition, subsidies, and air quality management’. Read more

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• Hon. Dr. Shashi Tharoor Op-Ed in The Indian Express
• AQA India Consultations with UN Environment

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