Priyanka bid to corner govt with ‘Zimmedar Kaun’ campaign
Slamming the Bharatiya Janata Party government over the recent Covid deaths due to absence of medical and other facilities, Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra launched a campaign coined ‘Zimmedar Kaun’ (Who is responsible) on Twitter, promising to question the ruling party on a daily basis even as people wanted to know who was responsible for the debacle.
Seeking suggestions from people through Twitter on Wednesday, Priyanka said she would pose daily questions and it was the responsibility of the government to come out with a convincing reply so that people could know who were responsible for the entire trouble caused during the second Covid wave.
Launching the programme, the Congress leader said, “Several lives have been lost due to government apathy and negligence so questioning the government is very necessary. People running the government must know about their responsibility towards the common man and be answerable towards the trouble and tragedy caused to the public due to their wrong and negligent handling of the crisis. At a time when people are struggling with shortage of oxygen, vaccines, hospital beds, medicines, the government is busy with other unimportant work including construction of a new house for the PM at Rs 13,000 crore.”
Riyanka further alleged, “The government has to answer about import of vaccines, doubling the export of oxygen in 2020, ordering very less vaccines in comparison to the population of the country.”
Meanwhile, Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi sent three truckloads of firewood to enable the poor to cremate their dead kin in Rae Bareli – her Parliamentary constituency. Congress spokesman Vinay Dwivedi said, “Soniaji has directed her representative KL Sharma to arrange wood for cremation and now the party cadres will help the poor in cremating their near and dear ones.”
Cremation in Rae Bareli takes place at Gokna, Dalmau and Gegaso ghats on the banks of the Ganga river and many poor people are burying their dead by the riverside in the absence of money to buy firewood for their last rites. Several bodies of suspected Covid patients were seen floating in the Ganga river at several places across the state earlier this month, prompting administration to step in with help to cremate bodies.The Yogi government announced to give Rs 5,000 for cremation of each bereaved family in the villages, while UP Labour Welfare Council has also separately announced a sum of Rs 7,500 for the purpose.
