Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday slammed the union government over the foreign aid to India amid pandemic and alleged that the government did not do its job properly. The Modi government’s “repeated chest-thumping” at receiving foreign aid to handle the disastrous Covid situation is pathetic and had it done its job properly, it would not have come to this.
Rahul Gandhi tweeted, "GOI's repeated chest-thumping at receiving foreign aid is pathetic. Had GOI done its job, it wouldn't have come to this."
Congress last week had demanded the prime minister to make the details public of the material and relief assistance that India has received from different countries.
Rahul Gandhi has been critical of the centre’s poor handling of the covid situation, since the beginning of the pandemic.
"Shehron ke baad ab gaon bhi parmatma-nirbhar (After cities, villages also left to the mercy of God," he said in a tweet, attaching an image of a Hindi caption reading "Covid-19: Mahamari ki dusri lahar ab gaaon mein barpa rahi hai kehr (Covid-19: The second wave of the pandemic now overwhelming villages)".
India has been reeling under the devastating effects of the second covid wave, causing immense pressure on the health infrastructure and breaking records of daily cases every day. The country has received large numbers of medical supplies, like ventilators, N95 masks, oxygen, from a significant number of countries including the US, Russia, France, Germany, the UK, Ireland, Belgium, Singapore, Romania, Sweden, Kuwait, Bahrain.
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Gandhi had earlier tweeted the country doesn't need a new house for the PM but needs oxygen, attaching photos of people in line for the life-saving gas, and work on the Central Vista. He also shared another tweet displaying a graph on increasing Coronavirus cases and falling vaccinations, which he had termed the situation "The Movid pandemic."