NEW DELHI, Apr 26:
CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury on Sunday attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his Government’s handling of the coronavirus situation in the country and charged that democratic accountability is grossly missing in his style of governance.
In a letter to the Prime Minister, Yechury said the political executive in the country is proving its “incompetence by knee-jerk reactions “and suggested measures that need to be put in place to fight coronavirus. “We are now entering the last week of the forty-day nation-wide lockdown that you had announced suddenly and abruptly with a mere four-hour notice. This left both the people and the state governments completely unprepared to meet the grave consequences of the sudden lockdown. “Since the lockdown, the urge among the migrant workers to return to their homes has seen surging crowds in huge numbers seeking to leave for their homes as they have lost all means of livelihood and shelter. This in itself negated one of the objectives of the lockdown, of maintaining physical distancing in order to contain community transmission,” he said. (PTI)
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