New Delhi: Congress chief Sonia Gandhi on Friday (April 23) urged the Rae Bareli District Magistrate to make the most of her Member of Parliament Local Area Development (MPLAD) fund to fight rising instances of COVID-19 virus within the metropolis.
Gandhi, who’s a Lok Sabha MP from Uttar Pradesh’s Rae Bareli, penned a letter to the DM and mentioned that she needs to contribute Rs 1.17 lakh from her MPLAD fund for the protection of the folks from the lethal coronavirus. Further, she requested the DM to make use of her funds for buying COVID-19 associated gear.
“At present, COVID-19 pandemic is widespread in the district besides the entire country, due to which the public is facing extreme difficulties. Therefore, my MPLAD fund should be spent in purchasing necessary equipment and other items, to save the people of my constituency Rae Bareli from the deadly pandemic,” the letter by Gandhi learn.
Congress interim president and MP from Rae Bareli (Uttar Pradesh), Sonia Gandhi writes to the District Magistrate, asking him to utilise her remaining MPLAD funds within the combat towards #COVID19 pandemic. pic.twitter.com/CIoBE36V4f
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On April 17, Sonia Gandhi had 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 had mentioned that regardless of a 12 months to arrange, Centre is caught off guard because the second wave of coronavirus hit.
Discussing methods of coping with the coronavirus disaster, Gandhi had demanded that the federal government ought to scale back the immunization age to 25 years from the present 45 years.
On Friday, Uttar Pradesh reported a document 37,238 new COVID-19 instances, pushing the overall an infection tally to over 10 lakh. While 196 fatalities took the loss of life toll to 10,737 within the state. The lively instances have reached 2,73,653 within the state, the Health Ministry information mentioned.
