Amidmassive surge in Covid cases, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday attackedPrime Minister Narendra Modi for the continuing crisis. He alleged that it's aModi made disaster.
"Shamshanaur Kabristan dono -- Jo kaha so ho kiya (both funeral and burial grounds,fulfilled what was promised) #ModiMadeDisaster," Rahul Gandhi tweeted.
RahulGandhi has stepped up the attack on the government since Thursday after somehospitals reported shortage of beds and ventilators.
TheCongress leader said in a tweet, "There is no test, no bed in thehospital, no ventilators, no oxygen, no vaccine, bus utsav ka dhong hai (afestive pretence)... PM cares?"
Healso criticized the BJP government over its failure in managing the pandemic.Earlier while mocking the PM Cares fund, Rahul said that there weren’t enoughhospital beds, ventilators, or oxygen. He also criticized the government forthe poor implementation of vaccine drive. He accused the government ofexporting vaccination to other countries, meanwhile putting India under vaccinestarvation.
Indiareported 2,34,692 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, the biggestsingle-day spike ever, taking the overall tally to 1,45,26,609 on Saturday,according to the Health Ministry data.
Thisis the third consecutive day that the country has registered over two lakhcases. India has on Friday reported 2,17,353 new cases and 2,00,739 onThursday.
Alsoin the last 24 hours, there were 1,341 new Covid-19 fatalities, the thirdconsecutive day with over a thousand deaths. This took the overall death tollin the country to 1,75,649.
Meanwhile,the daily active cases on Friday rose to 16,79,740.