New Delhi: Union Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat obtained flak for reportedly telling a COVID-19 contaminated affected person’s family to “offer coconut to Lord Balaji”.
While visiting the Mathuradas Mathur Hospital in Rajasthan’s Jodhpur to assess the prevailing COVID-19 state of affairs, the senior BJP chief stated, “You offer coconut to Balaji, everything will be alright,” as per a report by India Today.
Soon after receiving backlash for his remark, the Union Minister on Monday (April 26) took to Twitter placing out a clarification.
He tweeted (roughly translated from Hindi), “The medical doctors are doing their obligation, think about Balaji and supply a coconut. God will deal with every part.’ The opposition should inform me, what’s fallacious in making this assertion? How is it fallacious to reassure a family whose affected person is admitted in a hospital?”
“डॉक्टर अपना काम कर रहे हैं और बालाजी महाराज को आप नारियल चढ़ा देना, भगवान सब ठीक करेंगे” कहना किस नजरिए से गलत है? विरोधी मुझे समझाएं!
अस्पताल में भर्ती मरीज के परिजन को ढाढ़स बंधाना किस मानसिकता से गलत है, यह स्पष्ट किया जाए।
— Gajendra Singh Shekhawat (@gssjodhpur) April 26, 2021
“It is within my duty to convince a distressed mother to rely on both medicine and prayers and that is what I did. I have no doubt about the treatment being done by the doctors doing day and night duty there. Surely they are fully fulfilling their responsibility,” the minister added.
The BJP chief additionally slammed the media for giving pointless consideration to the difficulty.
