New Delhi: Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar has stirred controversy after he mentioned that arguing over the variety of COVID-19-related deaths ‘won’t bring back the dead’.
The Bharatiya Janata Party chief mentioned that the focus needs to be on serving to these struggling now. Khattar was replying to questions on the alleged under-reporting of coronavirus deaths.
“The kind of difficult situation we are going through, we don’t have to play with data. Our entire focus should be on how people will recover and how we can provide them relief,” PTI quoted him as saying on Monday (April 26, 2021).
“And those who have died will not come back by creating a furore over it,” he mentioned at one level, arguing that there was no level in getting right into a debate on whether or not the official variety of deaths was appropriate.
Khattar had visited Rohtak, Panipat, Hisar and Faridabad to evaluate the provide of oxygen and different services for COVID sufferers.
“We will do everything possible so that lives are saved. Whether the deaths are less or more, there is no point getting into this debate,” he mentioned.
“Whether we are able to set the systems right is the question. From our side, we are setting the systems in place,” he added.
Khattar mentioned no person had anticipated this sort of state of affairs.
“Who knew this pandemic will come, neither you knew nor we. To combat this, we want everybody’s cooperation together with yours, mine, the sufferers’.
Therefore, these points shouldn’t be the matter of any controversy,” he added.
Following Khattar’s remarks, Congress slammed Haryana CM and mentioned that ‘these can solely be the phrases of a cruel ruler’.
Congress’ normal secretary Randeep Singh Surjewala mentioned, “There is a need to make a noise over every death which is the result of the government’s inefficiency, so that the deaf BJP government can hear the echo.”
Congress MLA Kuldeep Bishnoi additionally condemned the CM’s remark and mentioned that the ‘remarks are shameful’.
Meanwhile, Haryana recorded its largest single-day bounce in coronavirus-related fatalities and circumstances on Tuesday. While 84 fatalities took the cumulative toll in the state to three,926, near 12,000 contemporary infections pushed the whole caseload to 4,47,754.
(With company inputs)
