Rahul Gandhi attacked the government for its management of the pandemic.
New Delhi:
Rahul Gandhi, in his tweet today targeting the ruling BJP, said the “Gujarat model” had been exposed, with the state recording the highest rate of coronavirus deaths in the country, almost double the national average. The leader of Congress, who targeted the government in almost daily messages about his handling of the virus crisis, quoted Einstein yesterday as saying: “The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance.”
“Covid19 mortality rate: Gujarat: 6.25% Maharashtra: 3.73% Rajasthan: 2.32% Punjab: 2.17% Pondicherry: 1.98% Jharkhand: 0.5% Chhattisgarh: 0.35% Gujarat exposed, “said Gandhi, sharing a BBC report analyzing the high death rate in Gujarat, the home state of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Gujarat is the fourth most affected state in the coronavirus battle in India after Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Delhi, but its mortality rate, or the proportion of patients who died from COVID-19, is the highest, more than double the national average of 2.86%.
In the past month, Gujarat has recorded an average of 400 new cases of coronavirus per day.
The state has 24,104 cases of coronavirus and the number of deaths has exceeded 1,500, according to the Union’s Ministry of Health.
Chief Minister Vijay Rupani has denied rumors of a return to tight lockdown in spiraling cases.
Over 75% of the cases in Gujarat come from Ahmedabad, its largest city.
In May, the Gujarat High Court called the Ahmedabad civilian hospital, one of the largest in the country handling COVID-19 cases, “a dungeon.”
“As we said earlier, the civilian hospital is intended to care for patients. However, it seems that to date it is as good as a dungeon. Perhaps worse than a dungeon. poor and helpless patients have no choice, “said the High Court.
Opposition Congress has focused on the high incidence of virus cases in Gujarat, Prime Minister Modi said for 13 years before taking power in the center in 2014. One of the BJP’s campaign points to the time was the success of the “Gujarat governance model” and how it would be reproduced at the center. The expression has since been used by the opposition to mock the BJP.
