Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 30: Former minister and senior Congress leader Raman Bhalla today accused BJP Government of failing to protect the people from surging COVID-19 cases in J&K and demanded it to come out with a white paper on preparations made to tackle the deadly virus.
He alleged that J&K is facing the crisis because BJP Government “failed” to take timely steps to control COVID-19.Government should focus on J&K and stop indulging in politics. The situation J&K is facing is due to its failure to take timely steps.”The positivity rate in J&K has soared considerably also death rate has also increased in the last few days. Is this the BJP model that was being touted by its leaders? BJP Government should tell how many ventilators and ICU beds were added in the hospitals in the last one year of the pandemic,” he questioned.
Indian society is just struggling to stay afloat and get through the crisis at the moment. But when we are past this and the dust settles, it will remain to be seen if they will keep buying into the Modi myth or think of an alternative that represents their better, more compassionate, and less narcissistic selves, Bhalla said.
He alleged that though Modi Government had failed to contain the pandemic it had managed to control “the truth of the pandemic” by manipulating the data regarding COVID-19. “As in the case of employment and development, the government is not allowing the actual data about corona to reach the people. They may have not been able to control the pandemic but managed to control the truth about the pandemic,” said Bhalla.
Ahead of the May 1 roll out of vaccination of every adult in the country, Bhalla said “all citizens of the country should get vaccine for free” and India should not become “a victim of the BJP’s system”.
Bhalla strongly maintained that the Centre failed to make State governments stakeholders in the fight against the second wave of COVID-19 and suggested that Prime Minister Modi convene an all party meeting to prepare a concrete roadmap. He said the current crisis is the result of bad planning by the Centre and alleged that “after centralized decision-making during the first wave, it has left the States to fend for themselves as things spiralled out of control.”
He said the government of India needs to take blame for the on-going ‘chaos’, unavailability of oxygen and life-saving medicines and the lack of capacity building since October last year when COVID cases were coming down.
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