Congress presses for nationwide lockdown to arrest Covid-19 unfold

The Congress on Saturday accused the Centre of abject failure in defending the lives of individuals and urged it to comply with the solutions of specialists by declaring a nationwide lockdown within the wake of rising circumstances of the novel coronavirus an infection.
Congress chief Rahul Gandhi hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for “not utilising the vaccination budget”.
“Vaccine budget- underutilized. Human life- undervalued. Because PM’s ego- overinflated,” he tweeted, tagging a media report which claimed that solely Rs 4,744 crore has been utilised from the vaccine price range of Rs 35,000 crore.
In one other tweet in Hindi on GST on Covid-19 vaccines, Gandhi alleged, “People’s lives may be lost, but PM’s tax extortion should not”.
In one more tweet, he mentioned, “The Movid pandemic” and tagged a small video titled “Modi hai to mumkin hai” which confirmed a rising graph of Covid-19 circumstances and a declining graph depicting the vaccination plunge.
Congress senior spokesperson Ajay Maken quoted a report from The Lancet journal which claimed that “India will see a staggering one million deaths from Covid-19 by August 1”.
He mentioned the report additionally mentioned that “if that outcome were to happen, Modi government would be responsible for presiding over a self-inflicted national catastrophe”.

The Congress chief additional mentioned the Indian Medical Association (IMA) and The Lancet have made a number of solutions much like these made by his social gathering leaders.
“The authorities mustn’t shut its eyes on the solutions given by specialists and the opposition. If such issues are coming from professionals and specialists, the federal government ought to take heed to them.

“If the IMA and reputed journals like The Lancet are suggesting imposition of a national lockdown, the government should impose the lockdown, but with Nyay-like schemes providing Rs 6,000 per month to the poor to tide over the crisis,” he mentioned at a digital press convention.