New Delhi:Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has hit out at the Congress and AAP government for indulging in petty politics at a time when the country is battling the second wave of the pandemic and its health infrastructure is under severe stress.
Slamming the Kejriwal government over the mismanagement of the COVID-19 pandemic, BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma said that the nodal officers of the AAP government did not answer the distress calls of the hospital when they were running out of oxygen. She said that even the court pulled up the Delhi government for not taking due action on time when hospitals raised an alarm for shortage of oxygen.
It is pertinent to note that the Delhi High Court has asked the hospitals and nursing homes to approach the nodal officers of Delhi to meet the requirement of medical oxygen to treat seriously ill COVID-19 patients.
"Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired a high-level meeting and instructed that there should be production of 3,300 MT of oxygen per day. But why is the Delhi government not doing anything? Many hospitals informed the HC that nodal officers of the AAP did not receive the distress calls of the hospitals when patients were gasping for breath. The Central government is doing everything possible to fight the pandemic but the Kejriwal govt is busy in doing advertisements in the media. The state govt must reach out to the oxygen manufacturers and suppliers," Sharma said.
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"The Delhi government has spent Rs 150 crore in three months on advertisements but is not doing anything to solve the oxygen crisis in the national capital. The state govt has neither built any hospital nor procured any new ventilators. And on the other hand, the Central government has approved setting up seven oxygen plants but the state govt has done nothing," she added.
The BJP leader also attacked Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi, Shashi Tharoor, Jairam Ramesh and Anand Sharma for mudslinging the saffron camp.