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BIG STORY                                                                    APRIL 23, 2021  |    The Indian Eye                          4





              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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