Govt failed to check spurt in time: Cong

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, May 7

State Congress president Kumari Selja today alleged that the BJP-JJP government failed to act in time to tackle the spurt in the Covid cases, which led to the situation now going out of control.

Selja, who was interacting with volunteers of the Congress Covid relief committee through video-conferencing, said despite warnings by the Congress, the state government failed to act.

“The government’s failure to act in time has now resulted in an acute shortage of beds, oxygen, ventilators and medicines. There is a high fatality rate, especially among the rural population,” she alleged.

Though the Chief Minister had repeatedly announced that the industry would not be closed during the lockdown, the government guidelines specified that the industry in the municipal limits could not function. This had adversely affected the industrial production and livelihoods of thousands of workers. At least 80 per cent of the industry in the towns of Gurugram, Faridabad, Panipat and Yamunanagar remained shut during the lockdown as it was situated within the MC limits, she alleged.