Sena blames Modi for Covid situation

Holding the Narendra Modi government responsible for the prevailing Covid situation in the country, Maharashtra’s ruling party Shiv Sena has said the country is running because of the institutions created by the NehruGandhi family. It has also slammed the Union government for continuing with the work of the Central Vista project amidst the Covid.

“The corona crisis has badly affected India’s economy. Despite this, the country has survived because of the system created in the past 70 years by previous Prime Ministers like

Pandit Nehru, Indira Gandhi and Manmohan Singh,” said the Uddhav Thackeray-led party in a hard-hitting editorial in the party mouthpiece ‘Saamana’ on Saturday.

“Many poor countries are offering help to India to tackle Covid. Earlier, countries like Pakistan, Rwanda and Congo used to get help from others. But due to the wrong policies of today’s rulers, India that prides itself as Aatmanirbhar (self-reliant) is going through that situation now,” said the party.

According to the editorial, India has reported the highest number of Covid deaths in the last 10 days. Globally, one out of the five active patients is in India.

In the last ten days, 36,110 deaths have occurred. Every hour, there are 150 Covid deaths in the country. We have left the USA and Brazil behind in terms of deaths due to the virus. The world fears India now. Several countries have stopped their citizens from doing business with India, due to which the country’s economy has been hit hard.

BJP MP Subramanian Swamy has demanded that Union minister Nitin Gadkari be given charge of the health ministry and this is proof that the current union health ministry has been a complete failure, it added.

The Shiv Sena came down heavily on Mr Modi’s ambitious Central Vista project suggesting it should be stopped. “While poor countries are helping India in their own way, PM is not ready to stop the Central Vista project. It is a surprise that nobody regrets the fact that on one hand, India accepts aid from countries like Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Bhutan, while on the other, it is splurging crores of rupees on the construction of a new Parliament building and the house of the PM,” it said.

THE PARTY has also slammed the Union government for continuing with the work of the Central Vista project amidst the Covid