Covid situation improved after intervention of Centre: Adesh
New Delhi, June 28: The Arvind Kejriwal government “turned its back” on Delhiites amid the Covid pandemic and Union home minister Amit Shah had to take over command of Delhi to provide proper healthcare facilities to the people, Delhi BJP president Adesh Gupta said on Sunday.
The Covid situation has improved in Delhi after the intervention of the Modi government, he said as he lamented chief minister Kejriwal’s admission that death toll increased in Delhi due to “lack” of beds for coronavirus-infected people in June. Mr Kejriwal, in a virtual briefing on Saturday, acknowledged that death figures had increased due to shortage of beds for Covid patients in the first week of June. However, in the past one month his government significantly increased the number of beds and there was no lack of it presently, he had said.
Hitting out at the chief minister, the Delhi BJP chief said, “Right from the beginning, Mr Kejriwal used to say that he had arranged 30,000 beds for Covid patients, but when the patients needed beds, those beds became invisible. The Kejriwal government had turned its back on the people and Union home minister Amit Shah had to take over command of Delhi and proper health facilities were provided to the people,” he said.