The Congress Working Committee on Saturday made a scathing attack on the Narendra Modi government for what it said was failure to prevent a second wave of Covid-19 in the country. At a press briefing after the CWC meeting, Congress chief Sonia Gandhi accused the government of “gross unpreparedness and avoidable ad hocism”, “confrontation” with the suggestions from Opposition-ruled states for the Covid-19 situation despite having one full year to ready itself to tackle the pandemic.Senior leaders P Chidambaram and Ajay Maken said Modi decision to carry on addressing election rallies in West Bengal was “shocking callousness” when he “should have been actually at his Delhi desk, coordinating the fight against the Covid-19 surge”.Sonia Gandhi demanded reducing the immunisation age to 25 years, GST exemption for all drugs and instruments used for treating Covid-19 patients and direct income transfer to the poor, including migrant workers. Even as AICC general secretary (Org) KC Venugopal said former prime minister Manmohan Singh would be formally writing to Modi in a day to convey the suggestions of the CWC in fighting the second wave of the pandemic and its adverse economic fallouts, the CWC resolution lobbed “14 failures” as the testimony of the government’s “colossal mismanagement of the war against the pandemic”.
Source: Economic Times
