Deccan Chronicle

TRS leaders dare Modi to visit Covid wards, like KCR

- DC CORRESPOND­ENT

TRS leaders including panchayat raj minister Errabelli Dayakar Rao, Chief Whip Dasyam Vinay Bhaskar, Warangal East MLA Nannapunen­i Narender, MLC Basvaraju Saraiah challenged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to visit Covid-19 wards in hospitals and extend assurance to the patients instead of shedding “crocodile tears” to gain sympathy.

Addressing a media conference here on Saturday, Dayakar Rao asked if any Chief Minister of the BJP-run states or Union minister had ever stepped inside a Covid-19 ward.

Prime Minsiter Modi must take stock of ground realities by visiting Covid19 wards in hospitals in different states, he demanded. “Mr Modi is the Prime Minister of the country and not just for Gujarat,” he said.

Referring to the short supply of Covid-19 vaccines being sent to the state, he said that Chief Minister K. Chandrashe­kar Rao had decided to procure the vaccines by inviting global tenders.

“It is high time for the Centre to react and bail out the states that are facing the catastroph­ic effects of Covid-19. The onus is on Centre to help the states reeling under economic crises,” Dayakar Rao said.

He said that Chandrashe­kar Rao’s decision to construct a super-speciality hospital on the premises of the Warangal Central Prison augurs well for the people in the erstwhile Warangal as well as neighbouri­ng districts and Maharashtr­a.

“The plans are ready to complete work on the hospital in one year. The works will start on the 23acre land parcel behind the prison,” he said.

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