“Corona War Not Indo-Pak War”: Shiv Sena’s Sanjay Raut Slams Centre

Mumbai:

Senior Shiv Sena chief Sanjay Raut at the moment spoke up in assist of a potential lockdown in Maharashtra regardless of the excessive financial prices.

Lashing out towards BJP leaders like Prakash Javdekar and Devendra Fadnavis, who’re towards the measure, he stated, “Corona battle just isn’t an Indo-Pak battle. Nobody ought to politicise this battle towards Covid”.

“Devendra Fadnavis is a former Chief Minister. He stated individuals don’t desire lockdown. Sure we all know it. However what is the resolution to save lots of individuals’s lives?” Mr Raut informed reporters.

“Prakash Javdekar, sitting in Delhi, shouldn’t give us lectures. He ought to come right here and see. He additionally has reference to the state… One shouldn’t be politicising this,” he added.

The Covid numbers in Maharashtra spiralling quick, Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray held an all-party assembly on Saturday the place the topic of a state-wide lockdown as an possibility was mentioned.

Maharashtra has already put in place an evening curfew and a weekend lockdown this week. However provided that the state is reporting round half the every day surge of infections within the nation for 3 weeks, the Chief Minister stated stronger measures had been needed to interrupt the chain of transmission.

Declaring that worldwide, lockdown is an appropriate measure in such circumstances, Mr Raut stated when the Chief Minister stated there’s “no possibility however lockdown, this isn’t solely a Maharashtra scenario. Covid is rising in the complete nation”.

“Whether or not the nation wants lockdown or not is one thing solely the Prime Minister can resolve. However I really feel the Centre will take the choice after their schedule of West Bengal election rallies,” he added.

Ramping up vaccination drive and rising its inventory is centre’s duty, he identified, citing the vaccine scarcity the state is going through.