New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday attacked the government over a WHO report which claimed that there were 4.7 million Covid deaths in India, saying "science does not lie, Prime Minister Narendra Modi does". Gandhi also demanded that the government should support the families that have lost loved ones by giving them the mandated Rs four lakh compensation.
In a tweet, he said, "47 lakh Indians died due to the Covid pandemic. NOT 4.8 lakh as claimed by the Govt. Science doesn't LIE. Modi does". "Respect families who've lost loved ones. Support them with the mandated? 4 lakh compensation," the former Congress chief said. The WHO on Thursday stated that 14.9 million (one million=10 lakhs) people were killed either by COVID-19 directly or due to the pandemic's impact on health systems and society. According to the report, there were 4.7 million Covid deaths in India, which is 10 times the official figures and almost a third of Covid deaths globally.
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Science doesn't LIE. Modi does.
Respect families who've lost loved ones. Support them with the mandated ₹4 lakh compensation. pic.twitter.com/p9y1VdVFsA
">47 lakh Indians died due to the Covid pandemic. NOT 4.8 lakh as claimed by the Govt.
— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) May 6, 2022
Science doesn't LIE. Modi does.
Respect families who've lost loved ones. Support them with the mandated ₹4 lakh compensation. pic.twitter.com/p9y1VdVFsA47 lakh Indians died due to the Covid pandemic. NOT 4.8 lakh as claimed by the Govt.
— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) May 6, 2022
Science doesn't LIE. Modi does.
Respect families who've lost loved ones. Support them with the mandated ₹4 lakh compensation. pic.twitter.com/p9y1VdVFsA
India strongly objected to the use of mathematical models by the World Health Organization (WHO) for projecting excess mortality estimates linked to the coronavirus pandemic in view of the availability of authentic data, saying the validity and robustness of the models used and the methodology of data collection are questionable.
Meanwhile, Congress spokesperson Gourav Vallabh said at a special AICC briefing “The government must immediately form a Covid commission with members from all parties to analyse the deaths that happened due to unavailability of oxygen, broken supply chain in case of vaccines and medicines and plan for better management during such pandemics”.
Speaking further, he asked the Centre when the BJP claims to put India on the world stage, “is this the way we Indians want to see our country being mentioned on the world stage.” Further, Vallabh said when a leading national daily reported numbers regarding excess deaths in Madhya Pradesh due to Covid, its offices were raided by the national agencies and asked whether the same will happen to WHO now.
Read: World lost nearly 1.5 crore excess lives due to COVID: WHO
