Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 20: Former MLC and senior Congress leader, Ravinder Sharma has termed the emerging COVID-19 situation as very serious, due to the callous approach of the BJP Government and appealed to the people to strictly follow the health advisories besides extending full support to the authorities in the fight against COVID.
Sharma said as reports and opinions of experts, the challenge of second surge of COVID-19 is more serious than the earlier one but the Government has yet to wake up to face the new challenge, so the people will have to be more vigilant to the growing situation to save the society from facing the worse.
The Ex-MLC questioned the failure of the Central Government to visualize the situation and blamed that it ignored the growing challenge, as it concentrated on enhancing ruling party’s electoral prospects with full might in the Assembly elections in different states rather than saving the lives of people. The number of vaccinations carried out in around four months, are very low in view of large population of our country besides the export of the medicine and vaccine to other countries, lack of incentives to manufacturers and charging of GST on the Medical equipments of COVID-19 etc are those areas which reflects the indifferent approach of the government in the matter.
The Congress leadership and CWC has raised very pertinent questions and the former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh,drew the attention of the Modi Government towards the various crucial aspects, to effectively fight the pandemic, before Dr Singh himself detected positive. Although the taunting response by the Union Health Minister to the most positive and sophisticated mode of suggestions given by Dr Singh, only reflects the egoistic style of the BJP and its Government.
Sharma asked the Government to strictly implement the guidelines and ensure the breaking of the chains besides putting in place additional health and infrastructure facilities to be required in the days to come. He also asked the Government to dispense with the presence of teachers during the closures of the schools and also surplus staff in other government institutions and allow them to work from home.
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