BJP lashes out at Congress for pointing questions on centre-led delegations

BJP on Tuesday lashed out at the Congress leaders for raising questions on the centre's decision to send an interministerial central team (IMCT) in order to assess the situation related to COVID-19 management.

New Delhi:The centre's decision to send an interministerial central team (IMCT) team to some of the non-BJP ruled states, in order to assess the situation related to COVID-19 management, has triggered a big row, with the Congress leader Ahmed Patel questioned the need for such a delegation.

Taking a dig at Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Patel said, "Why they are not sending such delegations to the BJP ruled states. Gujarat is a hometown of Shah. He must send the delegation to his hometown at priority basis."

Further, the Congress leader took to the micro-blogging site on Tuesday to kick out at the centre and wrote, " Given that rising cases & lockdown violations were criteria for sending Central teams to states, I request Amitbhai to deploy similar teams to Gujarat. This exercise shouldn’t be limited to selective states, all affected states must benefit from constructive inputs of Central Govt."

Following which BJP national spokesperson Vijay Sonkar Shastri said that at the time of COVID-19 outbreak, it is the prime duty of the Congress leader to cooperate with the centre.

"There are places where the condition of Corona have become very serious. In order to help the public, the centre has decided to send a delegation to assess the situation. Instead of cooperating with the centre, the grand old party leaders are indulging themselves in dirty-politics", added Sonkar.

Earlier, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee also lashed out at the Union Home Minister for deploying a centre- led delegation to her state.

Meanwhile, the death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 603 and the number of cases climbed to 18,985 in India, Union health ministry said. However, in a positive sign, case-doubling rate in the country has slowed down to 7.5 days from 3.4 days earlier.