New Delhi: Attacking the Uttar Pradesh authorities and State Election Commission (SEC) for conducting Panchayat polls amid large COVID-19 surge, Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Saturday (May 1) termed it a ‘crime against humanity’.
Vadra claimed that over 700 academics, together with a pregnant woman, who was ‘compelled’ to attend polling obligation have died.
“These elections have been conducted in almost 60,000-gram sabhas of UP without any thought of the catastrophic onslaught of the second wave,” the Congress chief mentioned.
Sharing media experiences on COVID-19 deaths within the state, Vadra tweeted, “Meetings were conducted, campaigning continued and the spread of COVID in UP’s villages is now unstoppable. People are dying in numbers far, far above the deceitful official figures.”
Over 700 academics have died in Uttar Pradesh, together with a pregnant woman who was compelled to attend polling obligation for the Panchayat elections.
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— Priyanka Gandhi Vadra (@priyankagandhi) May 1, 2021
The Congress chief claimed that a number of persons are dying in rural properties however the fatalities usually are not registered as coronavirus-related deaths as persons are not being examined.
“People are dying in homes across rural UP, and these deaths are not being counted as COVID because people aren’t being tested,” she alleged.
Further, slamming the Yogi Adityanath-led UP authorities, Vadra mentioned, “The government’s actions are designed to cover up the truth and terrorise both the public and the medical community, which is working tirelessly to save lives. What is happening in UP is nothing less than a crime against humanity and the SEC UP is playing along,” she asserted.
Polling for the four-phase panchayat elections in Uttar Pradesh ended on Thursday (April 29). The counting of votes will happen on May 2.
Meanwhile, as per an IANS report, the UP Teachers’ Federation and employees’ organisations have refused to be current throughout vote counting for the panchayat elections. The UP Teachers’ Federation despatched a letter to the SEC to postpone the counting of votes in any other case academics and employees will boycott it. They have alleged that from coaching to polling, the SEC didn’t observe the requisite COVID-19 norms anyplace. The federation launched a listing claiming that just about 706 academics and employees engaged in election obligation have succumbed to coronavirus an infection, whereas a lot of academics nonetheless battling the illness.
“There is no information about how many persons in the families of these Covid-hit teachers have been infected so the counting of votes to be held on May 2 should be halted,” the letter learn.
