The Congress’s youth wing filed a police complaint here on Wednesday, alleging “theft of rain” and claimed that the Delhi government’s Rs 1.25-crore cloud-seeding experiment failed to produce showers over the city.

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However, Delhi Environment Minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa claimed the cloud-seeding trials were successful and slammed the Opposition, saying they are “jealous” of the success of the BJP-led government.

Delhi conducted cloud-seeding trials on Tuesday, after a gap of 53 years, to induce artificial rain in the National Capital amid surging pollution levels, even as the weather department did not record any traces of rainfall in the city.

The Delhi Government, in collaboration with IIT-Kanpur, conducted the trials

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