“PM Has Surrendered”: Rahul Gandhi Targets Government Over Virus Crisis

New Delhi:

Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Saturday renewed his assault on High Minister Narendra Modi over the Coronavirus outbreak which has affected over 5 lakh other people within the nation. The federal government has no plan to defeat the pandemic and High Minister Narendra Modi has “surrendered” as he refuses to battle coronavirus, Mr Gandhi tweeted lately.

“COVID-19 is spreading swiftly into new portions of the rustic. GOI (Executive of India) has no plan to defeat it. PM is silent. He has surrendered and is refusing to battle the pandemic,” he tweeted attaching a information record via The Print, which claimed that neither the federal government nor the Indian Council of Scientific Analysis (ICMR), the nodal frame within the battle towards coronavirus, have no longer held a gathering in over two weeks.

The ultimate assembly of the Team of Ministers (GoM), headed via Union Well being Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan, was once hung on nine June, The Print reported, including that the ICMR ultimate met greater than two weeks in the past.

The Congress chief has focused the federal government in virtually day-to-day posts over its dealing with of the virus disaster. In one of the most posts, Mr Gandhi had quoted Einstein to mention: “The one other thing unhealthy than lack of know-how is vanity”.

Mr Gandhi’s newest assault got here on an afternoon India’s COVID-19 tally raced past five lakh with the easiest single-day surge of 18,552 circumstances. It took simply 149 days to go the five-lakh mark; the infections had crossed the 4 lakh determine six days in the past.  

The whole casualties because of the virus has crossed the 15,000-mark with 384 COVID-19 deaths reported up to now 24 hours. The collection of energetic circumstances stands at 1,97,387, whilst 2,95,880 other people have recovered and one affected person has migrated, in step with the up to date determine at eight AM.

Consistent with the ICMR, cumulative overall of 79,96,707 samples had been examined as much as June 26 with 2,20,479 samples being examined on Friday, the easiest in an afternoon because the starting of the pandemic.

Mr Gandhi has been attacking the federal government ever since a national lockdown was once introduced in March to wreck the chain of transmission.

The Congress MP from Kerala’s Wayanad has additionally held weekly conversations with professionals over the past two months at the repercussions of the lockdown and its have an effect on at the economic system, badly hit via the pandemic.

India has the fourth-highest collection of coronavirus circumstances amongst 10 international locations worst-hit via coronavirus. The coronavirus pandemic has killed over four.89 lakh other people globally because it was once first detected in China in December ultimate 12 months. Over 96.04 lakh other people had been inflamed with the extremely contagious virus globally.