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On PM Modi's Covid sin jab in Parliament, Opposition makes a comeback
Parliament: Delhi chief minister and Aam Aadmi Party (convener) Arvind Kejriwal said the PM’s statement in the Lok Sabha on his government asking poor people to leave the national capital was false and urged him to be more sensitive towards their pains.
Opposition leaders on Monday called out Prime Minister Narendra’s speech in Parliament wherein he accused the former of committing a sin during the Covid-19 pandemic by pushing migrant labourers to leave Delhi and Mumbai, thereby further spreading the viral disease.
Delhi chief minister and Aam Aadmi Party (convener) Arvind Kejriwal said ">the PM’s statement on how his government sinned by his government asking poor people to leave the national capital was false. Tagging a clipping of the PM’s speech on Twitter, Kejriwal wrote in Hindi, The PM’s statement is completely false. The country hopes the PM would be sensitive towards those who had suffered during the pandemic, those who lost their loved ones. It does not suit the Prime Minister to do politics on the sufferings of the people.”
Addressing the PM, the Congress wrote on its official Twitter handle, the country had witnessed how during the raging pandemic, Modi was doing a Namaste Trump’ and playing with peacocks and parrots. Also, bodies were seen floating in the Ganga in the midst of election campaigning, it said, adding Pushing the famers to streets during the pandemic was also your doing
In another tweet, Congress further hit back at the PM over China and how the founders of his party were opposed to the country's independence. Your clean chit and silence towards China reveal that mindset, it said.
In his reply to the debate on the President's address to the joint sitting of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, Modi said the Congress had crossed all limits and sinned during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. When people were following lockdowns across the world, Congress leaders were standing at Mumbai station and scaring innocent people.
"The Congress gave free train tickets to migrant workers to leave Mumbai. At the same time, the Delhi government went around slums in jeeps and announced on mics that whoever wants to go home, buses have been arranged.to leave the city… This led to the spread of Covid in Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and Uttarakhand. What kind of politics is this? How long will this politics continue? The entire country is shocked by the behavior of Congress, he added.
In a dig at the PM, Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav said the regime has created such conditions in the country, nobody now believes in his (Modi) words.
