new delhi in a video address cm arvind kejriwal on sunday said that there should be no politics on the worsening air quality in the capital and haryana punjab and the centre should join hands with delhi to address the issuetrack the pollution level in your citystubble burning has been causing pollution in delhi for the last 20 days we do not want to play blamegame there should be no politics its a matter of grave concern for us all our health is at stake we have to stop stubble burning collectively even scientists and environmental experts have said that the smoke in delhi is because of farm fires kejriwal saidtimes viewgovernments at the centre and in delhi haryana punjab and up need to start behaving as if they recognise that the ncr is facing a monumental public health emergency this is no time for blame games or cornering credit for what few positive measures have been taken even concerted action by all governments may not be enough to deal with the crisis in the short to medium term but anything less would be criminal neglect of their duty and a complete abdication of leadership lets also not argue about which source of pollution deserves priority action every source minor or major needs urgent tackling central and state governments should jointly commit to a 5year plan with annual targets of aqi reduction to less than 100 by 2025 and below 50 soon after breathing this toxic air is imperiling all of us particularly children even if we can ensure we wont have to do so in future the damage already done will continue to extract its toll in the years to come so every extra day of inhaling this poison is one day too many as citizens and victims we need to pitch in through efforts such as car pooling and maximising use of public transport we need to treat these tasks as if our lives depend on them because they doreiterating that 24x7 supply of power has helped phase out use of generator sets which used to cause pollution kejriwal said we have carried out afforestation on 600 acres which has increased the states forest cover and helped reduce pollution centre constructed the eastern and western peripheral expressways which stopped trucks from entering the citykejriwal said there are 27 lakh farmers in haryana and punjab but only 65000 machines have been distributed to them in the past two years how long will it take for the government to distribute these machines and how long will we have to suffer we are not saying that delhi doesnt have its own sources of pollution we are trying to reduce that he added