Mayawati demanded that the culprits be punished.
Lucknow:
After a video showing health workers who threw bodies of coronavirus victims into a large pit in Karnataka, BSP President Mayawati said on Wednesday that the incident was “the height of cruelty and insult to humanity “.
The former chief minister of the UP demanded that the culprits be punished.
“The tragedy that the bodies of the victims of COVID-19 are thrown into trenches in Ballari, Karnataka is the height of cruelty and an insult to humanity. Although incidents related to inhuman cruelty with corona patients are endemic , but Ballari culprits must be punished by the state government, “Mayawati said in a tweet.
In another tweet, she also asked the central government to extend the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana until the end of the coronavirus pandemic.
“In order to control the ignominy of famine because of the unprecedented hardships and unemployment caused by the coronavirus and the ensuing national foreclosure, Prime Minister Garib Kalyan Anna Yojna must continue not until November but until end of the pandemic is the request for BSP, “she tweeted.
