MHA calls all-party meeting on Delhi's COVID situation, Congress asks for public suggestions

Amid rising concern over the rapid growth of the novel coronavirus cases in Delhi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday has called for an all-party meeting. Revealing the news on Twitter, Delhi Congress Chief Anil Choudhary asked for public suggestions.

New Delhi:After the Ministry of Home Affairs called for an all-party meeting on June 15, to discuss the Covid-19 situation in Delhi, Congress has asked for public suggestions over the matter.

"I have received a letter from Ministry of Home Affairs regarding an all-party meeting over the COVID management in Delhi. I want to request people of Delhi to convey their suggestions to me over the matter, via Twitter, Facebook or mail," said Delhi Congress Chief Anil Choudhary in a video.

The meeting will be held at 11 am tomorrow, in which all the Delhi based political parties, including BJP, Congress, BSP, and AAP, have been called to give their suggestions for COVID management in the national capital.

DPCC Chief further stated, "Congress is continuously giving positive suggestions to tackle the COVID crisis not just in Delhi, but all over India. We had also attended the meeting called by Delhi's Lieutenant Governor, recently. I'm happy that he took our suggestions and ordered to put LCDs outside the hospitals."

The Congress leader also slammed the Delhi Government for not taking appropriate steps to contain the virus.

"Unfortunately, the state government did not take this initiative earlier," said Anil Choudhary.

Delhi has recorded a total of 38,958 COVID cases out of which 22,742 are active in the city, so far.

Earlier today, the Union Home Minister also had a meeting with Delhi's Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to discuss the current situation of capital.

In today's meeting, it was decided that the 500 railways isolation coaches will be deployed in Delhi to fulfill the requirement of beds for Corona patients. Also, the testing of COVID-19 will be doubled in the next couple of days.