Several BJP leaders throughout the state held protests in their very own areas.
Mumbai: The Shiv Sena-Congress-Nationalist Congress Party authorities in Maharashtra got here below assault from the opposition BJP on Friday over its dealing with of the COVID-19 pandemic within the state. The BJP held a protest in opposition to the state authorities, alleging it had didn’t comprise the disaster. Maharashtra has the very best variety of COVID-19 sufferers within the county with Mumbai alone accounting for greater than one-fifth of coronavirus instances in India.
The protest was led by former Chief Minister and Leader of Opposition Devendra Fadnavis. Several BJP leaders together with state BJP President Chandrakant Patil additionally gathered on the Maharashtra BJP headquarters sporting black masks and stood at a distance from one another. Sharing footage of the protest, Leader of Opposition Devendra Fadnavis tweeted, “Most cases, most deaths. The healthcare system has completely collapsed. This is the abject failure of the Government. We have always cooperated with the state government. But how much will the people have to tolerate? I participated in the “Maharashtra Bachao” agitation at the state BJP headquarters.”
But in footage on Twitter kids are seen collaborating within the protest with masks lowered. The photographs of the kids within the protest usually are not from the identical location the place the previous Chief Minister protested.
Several BJP leaders throughout the state held protests in their very own areas to spotlight what they really feel is an absolute failure of the federal government. But the thought of a protest throughout the lockdown, particularly political protests involving kids drew sharp reactions.
The Shiv Sena slammed the BJP for organising a protest throughout the lockdown.
“Absolutely shameful, what lust for power politics can make leaders do. Making kids stand in the heat, with their masks lowered, not covering the face for a political protest when we need to keep them safe and indoors. Corona ko bhul gaye, politics pyaara hai,” Cabinet Minister Aaditya Thackeray tweeted.
“One political party state unit has set a new low and a new world record- the only party in the world to indulge in politics and in spreading fear, hate and division when the world has forgotten all of it to help each other. This party has forgotten the pandemic,” he added in one other tweet.
Aaditya Thackeray is a member of his father Uddhav Thackeray’s cupboard and is the minister for Environment, Tourism and Protocol in Maharashtra.
Maharashtra has reported 41,642 coronavirus instances with greater than 25,000 instances in Mumbai alone, well being officers stated on Thursday.
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