Numbing himself to the insufferable agony COVID-infected andtheir families are going through, the External Affairs Minister officially askshis diplomats to counter international media exposing the ground reality ofIndia’s crematoriums, hospitals, and the situation of COVID patients.
The international media including New York Times, Guardian,Le Monde, and Straits Times are performing their fiduciary duty of presentingreality to the world.
The patients dying at the doorsteps of hospitals waiting foroxygen and doctors, the overflowing crematoriums, the irrevocable losscountless Indian families have suffered on losing a loved one to the pandemic –are these not the direct result of the incompetence of the leaders that havebeen elected to lead the nation?
PM Modi and his leaders are blamed to have not paidattention to the warning signs before the second wave of COVID, whichJaishankar claims is so ferocious that even the developed nations have crumbledunder it.
Jaishankar’s reasoning is that since the second wave of thepandemic has been so devastating that they or any other party could not havedealt with it in any way better than it is being handled now.
There may be some truth that the virus’ second wave is sopowerful that our health infrastructure was destined to be swamped, butJaishankar’s attention is called to actions of which no sane and concernedperson would allow for - Kumbh Mela, political campaigning, and export ofvaccines.
It must be mentioned that some envoys countered that thecall for countering every media report. The Deputy High Commissioner to Australia expressed the same in writing.
This publication exhorts Jaishankar to set aside partyaffiliations and focus on his role of arranging as many supplies as he can forhis nation from as many willing nations as possible.
Further, Jaishankar is requested to at least restrain himselffrom involving himself in party politics till India and world rise from thewildfire of COVID.