New Delhi: Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Saturday (April 17) slammed the central authorities for its “gross unpreparedness” and “adhocism” in tackling the COVID-19 disaster. Chairing a meet of the Congress Working Committee (CWC), Gandhi stated that regardless of a year to put together, Centre is caught off guard as the second wave of coronavirus hit.
“I held detailed discussion with CMs of States ruled by Congress and where Congress is in alliance government, to take stock of the situation there. What transpired was, gross unpreparedness and avoidable adhocism on part of Modi govt in foreseeing and managing COVID crisis,” the Congress supremo was quoted as saying by ANI.
Discussing methods of coping with the coronavirus disaster, Gandhi demanded that the federal government ought to scale back the immunization age to 25 years from the present 45 years.
Gandhi additionally accused the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Centre of “thundering silence” on requests of states dominated by the Congress and opposition events, whereas giving preferential remedy to others.
In the CWC meet attended by former social gathering chief Rahul Gandhi, basic secretaries, different everlasting invitees and state in-charges of the social gathering, the Congress chief said that COVID-19 pandemic is a nationwide problem that must be saved above social gathering politics.
“We have prolonged our fingers of cooperation proper from February-March, 2020. We can’t, nevertheless, lose sight of the truth that the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic has hit the country with fury. Despite a year to put together, we have now, regrettably, been caught off guard once more,” Gandhi was quoted as saying by PTI.
Hitting again on the Union Ministers, Gandhi stated that as a substitute of paying heed to the strategies by the opposition, the Centre is busy attacking them for giving these strategies. “This convoluted ‘me versus you’ debate is infantile and completely pointless,” Gandhi said.
Taking on these difficult instances as Indians fairly than as political opponents shall be true ‘Rajadharma’, she added.
(With inputs from businesses)
