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covid-19 & modi government

cOlOssal

failure

Hospitals without enough beds, medicines and oxygen. People crying for help on social

media. the vaccine rollout hitting a major roadblock. the pandemic’s second wave

exposes the modi government’s failure to plan and control a massive disaster.

Our Bureau
New Delhi

t sounds like unbelievable
but it is true. On Monday,
Ithe hashtag #ResignModi
trended with tweets roasting the
Prime Minister over the Covid
resurgence, while the BJP sup-
porters remained subdued in
what appeared a tacit acknowl-
edgment of the scale of the crisis
and the difficulty of defending
the government’s role. By eve-
ning, the hashtag had notched
more than 2.38 lakh tweets that
bombarded cyberspace with
cartoons and graphics showing
Narendra Modi fiddling like
Roman emperor Nero at a time
the glut of Covid bodies has led
to crematorium parts melting,
pyres being lit on pavements
and hospitals staggering the re-
lease of the dead.
Just a few months ago, this
scenario was difficult to imagine. A view of the burning pyres at a cremation ground where COViD-19 victims being cremated,
The pandemic is now out of in New Delhi on Friday, (ANi)
control in India. People are suf-
fering. Narendra Modi’s image — a new record for any coun- the US on January 2 this year. unprecedented pace with
as a strong and decisive leader try anywhere in the world. No The US and India are the only which the virus has spread
is damaged. And the situation country had so far added these two countries to have reported across the country. If the num-
is not showing any signs of im- many cases for two consecutive more than 100,000 cases per ber of confirmed cases is bro-
proving in coming days. days. On Thursday, India had day consecutively. Brazil had ken down in months, the cata-
On Friday, India added reported 314,835 Covid cases reported its highest surge of strophic surge in cases in April
more than 300,000 new cases and went past the previous glob- 100,158 cases on March 25. becomes evident.
for the second consecutive day al record of 300,310 reported by This shows the rapid and Continued on next page... >>

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