Congress Working Committee says ‘colossal mismanagement’ of Covid struggle by govt

Accusing the BJP authorities of “colossal mismanagement” of the struggle towards the pandemic, the Congress on Saturday mentioned the Centre has failed on a number of fronts, together with in creating public consciousness {that a} waning pandemic could possibly be precursor to a deadlier second wave and quickly scaling up the manufacturing and provide of the 2 permitted vaccines by offering adequate funds and different concessions.
A gathering of the Congress Working Committee warned the nation will face an “unprecedented catastrophe” until “urgent corrective measures are taken”.
Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the Congress mentioned, will write to Prime Minister Narendra Modi Sunday placing ahead a set of strategies from the occasion. For occasion, Congress president Sonia Gandhi, on the assembly, mentioned the federal government should cut back the immunisation age to 25 years and above in addition to youthful individuals with well being issues.
Arguing that specialists had warned {that a} second save was potential and maybe imminent, the Congress mentioned the Centre did not put in measures and paved the best way for the havoc that’s being attributable to the second wave. “Despite a year to prepare, we have, regrettably, been caught off guard again,” Gandhi mentioned.
The Congress mentioned the federal government did not universalise vaccination, eliminate pre-registration and bureaucratic management over the programme, depart the vaccine roll-out to the state governments and private and non-private hospitals, and minimise vaccine wastage

At a press convention after the assembly, senior Congress chief P Chidambaram mentioned it’s “shocking callousness” on Prime Minister half to be addressing rallies in West Bengal as a substitute of staying in Delhi and coordinating among the many ministers.
“We all know that this is a one-person government. All decisions are taken by the Prime Minister or in his name by the Prime Minister’s office. He should be there in Delhi fighting this war,” he mentioned.

Chidambaram additionally backed the Trinamool Congress’s demand for clubbing the remaining phases of the Bengal elections and argued the Prime Minister’s attraction to maintain the Kumbh Mela “symbolic” was too late. “How many days has the Kumbh mela gone on already?…So, this is again locking the stable after the horses have bolted,” he mentioned.