Country facing health emergency, not a time to discuss poll outcomes: Kapil Sibal
After the dismal efficiency of the Congress in latest Assembly elections in 5 states/UT, social gathering chief Kapil Sibal mentioned on Tuesday that that is not the proper time to discuss such points when the nation is within the grip of a pandemic. “Everyone is concerned about the electoral outcomes now. But the country is facing a health emergency, and the issue of the party can be discussed afterward as a priority should be given to containing the pandemic now,” Sibal mentioned.
Barring in Tamil Nadu, the place the Congress is the junior accomplice within the alliance with the DMK, which has returned to energy within the state after a hole of 10 years, the social gathering failed to make an impression in West Bengal, Puducherry, Kerala and Assam.
After the declaration of outcomes on May 2, Congress mentioned that the social gathering will ‘examine’ the outcomes, appropriate its errors and do a course correction.
The same response got here from senior Congress chief Ghulam Nabi Azad, who additionally mentioned that containing the pandemic must be the primary precedence now.
Meanwhile, one other social gathering chief Sandeep Dikshit on Tuesday blamed the Union authorities and praised Rahul Gandhi, saying “when Rahul Gandhi knew about the Tsunami (of Covid cases), how come the Prime Minister did not know about it with all the resources at his disposal?”.
Sibal additionally attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi and held the Union authorities accountable for the current health disaster within the nation.
“The Prime Minister was more interested in campaigning while people were dying in the hospitals without oxygen and beds,” Sibal mentioned.
(With IANS inputs)
