Rahul Gandhi hit out at PM Modi over the grim pandemic state of affairs within the nation.
New Delhi:
Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Saturday hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the federal government’s dealing with of the novel coronavirus pandemic amid India’s struggle in opposition to Covid.
As Mr Gandhi made the frontal assault in opposition to the Prime Minister, two different senior Congress leaders, P Chidambaram and Jairam Ramesh, too joined him.
“No Vaccines. Lowest GDP. Highest Covid deaths… GOI’s response? PM cries,” he mentioned in an acerbic tweet on Friday, whereas additionally accusing PM Modi of shedding “crocodile tears” whereas paying homage to individuals who died of COVID-19.
मोदी सिस्टम के कुशासन के चलते सिर्फ़ भारत में कोरोना के साथ-साथ ब्लैक फ़ंगस महामारी है। वैक्सीन की कमी तो है ही, इस नयी महामारी की दवा की भी भारी कमी है।
इससे जूझने के लिए PM ताली-थाली बजाने की घोषणा करते ही होंगे।
— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) May 22, 2021
“Crocodiles are harmless,” mentioned the Congress chief in one other tweet, in a dig on the Prime Minister turning emotional throughout his digital interplay with docs in his Lok Sabha constituency Varanasi on Friday.
Crocodiles are harmless.
मगरमच्छ निर्दोष हैं।
— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) May 22, 2021
On his Twitter deal with, Mr Gandhi additionally shared a chart on the worldwide financial situation and pandemic state of affairs, tweeted by the Union authorities’s former Chief Financial Advisor Kaushik Basu.
The chart confirmed India’s GDP at minus eight in opposition to 3.8 of Bangladesh, 1.9 of China and O.4 of Pakistan.
In the identical chart, India was proven struggling 212 deaths for every million of its inhabitants resulting from COVID-19 in opposition to 0.4 deaths in Vietnam and two in China.
“As a result of mismanagement of the Modi system, India has the black fungus epidemic together with the Covid pandemic,” Mr Gandhi mentioned in yet one more tweet, focusing on the prime minister.
“Together with the scarcity of medicines for Covid, India additionally has an enormous scarcity of medicines for this massive illness. The prime minister will quickly be making a ”taali-thaali” (clapping and beating of plates) announcement to cope with the illness,” he mentioned in a tweet in Hindi.
One other Congress chief Jairam Ramesh too attacked the federal government over the alleged poor tempo of anti-Covid vaccination, saying the nation wants vaccines, not “crocodile tears”.
Declare—Jan 2021: Modi Govt will vaccinate 30cr Indians absolutely by July finish.
Actuality—twenty second Could: 4.1cr Indians received each doses.Declare—twenty first Could: India will absolutely vaccinate all adults by finish of 2021.
Actuality—twenty first Could: Solely 14 lakh vaccinated complete day.We want vaccines, not ???? tears! https://t.co/mqLM9CaUG9
— Jairam Ramesh (@Jairam_Ramesh) May 22, 2021
Senior Congress chief P Chidambaram additionally cautioned the federal government saying each the IMF and WHO have cautioned India in opposition to the results of the sluggish tempo of vaccination.
“The declare of the Union well being minister of getting 216 crore vaccine doses by December 31 to vaccinate all the grownup inhabitants by that date have to be backed by exhausting knowledge. To date, it isn’t,” he mentioned in a collection of tweets.
“We want knowledge on the capability of home producers, orders positioned vaccine-wise, import contracts concluded, agreed schedule of supply and so forth. Nothing has been disclosed to date,” he mentioned in a tweet.
“The ultimate warning to the federal government is that if vaccination just isn’t accelerated, it is not going to be attainable to forestall a 3rd wave,” he mentioned.
P Chidambaram mentioned the Modi authorities can’t say “we didn’t anticipate these penalties”.
Each IMF and WHO have cautioned India in regards to the penalties of the sluggish tempo of vaccination.
– P. Chidambaram (@PChidambaram_IN) May 22, 2021
“The federal government has been duly forewarned,” he mentioned.
The Congress has been crucial of the federal government’s vaccination coverage and sluggish tempo of inoculations.
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