‘Resisted outbreak due to system by Nehru-gandhi’

MUMBAI: The Shiv Sena has taken potshots at the Bharatiya Janata Party (Bjp)-led Central government and said that the country was able to resist the onslaught of the Covid-19 pandemic due to the system created by Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi over the decades.

“Today India is able to bear the onslaught of this pandemic due to the system created by

Gandhi-nehru or else the population of 125 crore would have been destroyed,” the Sena said in its mouthpiece Saamana.

The mouthpiece also slammed the Centre for continuing its ambitious Central Vista project despite the pandemic. “Poor countries are offering help to India, but our honourable Prime Minister is not ready to stop the ₹ 20,000-crore Central Vista project. Bangladesh has sent 10,000 Remdesivir vials as donation, while Bhutan has sent medical oxygen. Even countries such as Nepal, Myanmar and Sri Lanka have offered help to ‘Aatmanirbhar [self-reliant]’ India,” taunted the Sena. “Today we are facing problem due to the wrong policies pursued by the current rulers,” said the editorial.

Criticising the Centre further, the editorial stated that it was getting censured regularly by the Supreme Court for its inept handing of the pandemic.

It also went on to dub the Centre as “insensitive”, stating that instead of forming a panel of all main political parties, it is more interested in cornering West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee even today.

Describing the Union health ministry as a complete failure, the editorial stated, “BJP MP (Member of Parliament) Subramanian Swamy has demanded that Nitin Gadkari, who is one of the active Union ministers, be given the charge of health ministry. This aptly proves the failure of the ministry.”