Our friendly little Israel just marked its exit from the pandemic with cases down 97 per cent. The not-so-friendly and bigger China announced its full recovery from Covid with a quarter of 18.3 per cent growth. Now, move your gaze to India on the same day. Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired a top-level meeting to respond to the growing crisis over the shortage of medical oxygen as Covid cases, deaths and positivity rates rise.
He didn’t waste any time in ceremonials or election campaigning on the day we are writing this. Already, Modi had cancelled a scheduled meeting with the visiting French foreign minister, not something you’d expect him to do casually. Especially given the centrality of France to India’s strategic interests and the PM’s likely summit with French President Emmanuel Macron later this year. In fairness, you could argue that the PM is so sensitive to his people’s distress that he is willing to leave everything else and focus personally on the day’s gravest crisis. But, should the crisis have become so grave that the prime minister of a nation of 1.38 billion with nuclear weapons and pretensions to be a global power is reviewing the supply status of medical oxygen?
We can say the usual stuff about this being an over-centralised, PMO-run government. This is more than a story of micromanagement gone wrong. This is a national leadership gone so wrong that India’s most powerful prime minister in four decades has had to personally take charge of medical oxygen shortages. As if a war with China was raging for some time and India’s forces were running short of missiles.
Being an old government watcher, I also noted with special interest that even representatives of the steel industry were participating in this meeting. A few phone calls unravelled that mystery. The steel ministry and industry come in because you need many more gas cylinders. Some decisions were taken at the meeting after this. Mostly good ones — allowing free inter-state movement of oxygen among them.
Mukesh Ambani chipped in with transferring some oxygen from his plants. And, as I write this, I see an anchor on India Today TV explaining in great detail — breathless in excitement — that the oxygen cylinders available for home use “you can buy from Amazon, but also from elsewhere”. A nation that takes pride in being the unipolar vaccine world’s only super-power — hailed by Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro, such as he is, as the modern-day Hanuman bringing Sanjeevani to the world — is now all battle-stations for medical oxygen. Of course, it is also out shopping for Covid vaccines across the world too.
Also read: Modi govt’s mistakes are to blame for India’s latest Covid crisis
This is Narendra Modi’s biggest crisis yet. It is bigger than any security threat, external or internal, or even the economic attrition of 2020. Security threats unite India behind any government of the day. And economic losses were pre-calculated.
The crisis with the return of Covid, already twice as bad as the peak in the first wave and worsening still, has the potential of unravelling the Modi government. It is unlikely, almost impossible, that somebody around him will tell him this. Strong men do not fill their inner circles with people who can give them the bad news.
If it was so, somebody should have told him on the 2015 Obama visit — ‘Sir, please do not wear this suit, it isn’t appropriate’. Or now, ‘sir please do not let that stadium in Ahmedabad be named after you’. Very candidly, and not at the fear of the axe. Because critics bring reality check that sycophants and noddies won’t. Remember the Bhakt Kabir wisdom in the traditional RSS discourse Modi is familiar with — “Nindak niyare raakhiye, aangan kuti chhawaye/bin paani, sabun bina, nirmal kare subhaay”, which means “Keep your critics closest to you, within the four walls of your home and courtyard, listen to them without annoyance, because they can tell you your flaws so you can cleanse without needing soap or water.”
And since somebody must do it — hold up the mirror — here we are. A nation that the entire world is looking at expectantly for its vaccine supplies is importing them instead, in a real emergency. What should’ve been a moment of crowning glory for Indian soft power is now a sad embarrassment where doses contracted by Indian manufacturers, even to the country that issued the licence and transferred the technology — Britain (for Covishield) — are being held back. Britain has served a notice of breach of contract on the manufacturer with a threat to withdraw the licence.
Unlikely such a withdrawal will happen at this juncture. But, it is bad optics especially as we prepare for Boris Johnson’s visit after a few days.
Also read: Vaccine maitri isn’t India’s problem. Centre-state scuffle during a Covid surge is
Once we accept with some humility the reality of where we are, we can reflect on how we got here. And, more important, how to get out of this.
When Narendra Modi first came to Delhi in the summer of 2014, he used to say that his big discovery was how the central government worked in silos. People never worked together towards a larger objective. He was going to challenge that territoriality, he said, break those old silos. Over seven years now, he has built similar silos around himself.
As India’s Covid numbers began to decline after the mid-September peak while many other countries, including the US, UK, Brazil and Russia, were battling crippling second waves, we declared victory. Who’s ‘we’, is a good question. Today, any questioning of the government runs into the “blame the people” firestorm.
It is true that people dropped their fear, caution, masks, resumed partying, big weddings. But what cue were they getting from leaders? That festivals, the Kumbh Mela and full-blooded election campaigns could now go on. The war with the virus was over and the good side, ‘us’, had won. People follow their leaders. The more popular they are, the more loyal are the followers.
Now that shortages are setting in, queues lengthening from hospitals to pharmacies to crematoria, when TV anchors are teaching us where to order oxygen cylinders for home use, you know what you are paying for. But, you know how perfidious we are? How entitled we, the people? We will never blame ourselves, but the leaders.
There were errors of governance. As with all great projects where Bharat Sarkar takes full charge, it thinks it can do it all by itself. With fiat. So the government will say which vaccine will be permitted, who will make it, how many, and the price to sell. And, of course, it will be the monopoly buyer. This isn’t the first time a government erred in cutting the market out instead of using it as an ally. The surprise is it is the Modi government that did so. Its promise has been the opposite.
The way out is simple, because there is only one. Get more vaccines into people’s arms. For a population our size, and our raging infections, our cruising pace of three million a day is too slow.
Around this time last year, headline hunters were predicting an apocalypse in India in the first wave. India proved them colossally wrong then. We will let India down if we allow pandemic entrepreneurs to have the last laugh.
Also read: Modi govt allowing foreign vaccines a welcome step, there are many economic & health benefits
This is a 1962 moment for India.
Our honourable PM had led the nation through very difficult times, however the acts of omission and complacency along with our careless and callous attitude during the second COVID wave has brought the Nation to a precipice.
From reading news headlines wherein we were supplying vaccines to the world to now facing shortage of oxygen is a frightening turn of events.
But I have faith in my country and as always we will pull through, a very dark night awaits us, but the sun will rise again of that I am certain.
This is the first time that this government is facing any serious issue.
In India rules are for fools. Premature celebrations on first wave by both people and our various govts both state and central led us to believe the worst was over.
Difficult time has been made more difficult by shri modi by fruitless demonetization, untimely GST, and unprepared lockdowns and finally CDS view for China’s going back.
And what do you call when Home minister and PM polls in crowded rallies without mask. What way they are paving, why since the start of year till March, people were vaccinated in small.numbers. even though my parents got vaccine they have got covid, I have also got it, even though didn’t step out of house without mask ever. Gross incompetent government
The critique by the learned author is well-founded. However, following para needs pondering over-
”It is true that people dropped their fear, caution, masks, resumed partying, big weddings. But what cue were they getting from leaders? That festivals, the Kumbh Mela and full-blooded election campaigns could now go on. The war with the virus was over and the good side, ‘us’, had won. People follow their leaders. The more popular they are, the more loyal are the followers.”
Once you concede the contributory role of the people to the 2nd wave, why we omit to underline the impact of most crucial contributors like the Kissan agitations involving thousands and lakhs of participants with no COVID19 appropriate behavior even before the 1st wave had subsided; and the primary duty of public healthcare with the state governments as per the constitutional scheme of distribution of the subjects between the Union and the states. The manner in which such crucial contributors are being skirted for their accountability, rather abdication thereof, for the presence mess, it seems the learned author has some pre-conceived agenda to trivialize the unhelpful/negative role played by some very important actors with a view to target one party. It is also noteworthy that out of target population of about 35 crores (45 years and above) about 12 crores of them have got one or two jabs by now. That amounts to one third of the target population. Why trivialize such notable achievements despite the unhealthy reluctance of the target sections. However, I agree that states and Union government can still recover the ground well by fine-tuning their response in close coordination in the face of unprecedented demands being made by the situation on the ground by vaccination of maximum people coupled speedily with judicious mix of restrictions to enforce COVID 19 appropriate conduct by all the stakeholders.
Please look at the statistics of Covid infection and it’s correlation with farmers protest.
And also the honourable government of India could have easily avoided the farm protests if they had a little bit of sensitivity left in them. Unlike kumbh mela or election famers protest wasn’t an celebration, it was a fight for rights.
Sry to say this….. But it was central govt who escalated the farmers issue rather simply solving it by rolling back the bill……. Dont you think the modiji claimed vaccine making shouldnt have thought about the population too?? How can a PM not think about virus in 2nd wave can also transform?? Isnt it a well known thing that vurus mutate quickly, so what purpose does the vaccination serve?? Everyone heaped praise that modiji did a timely lockdown and saved our country, but the lockdown was so harsh that repeating it may cost him his chair…… Please watch Dr. Biswaroop Roys video on covid 19….. You ll know the reality….. Yes covid 19 is serious, but not as how its being projected?? If you dont have time to watch the videos, just google flu virus mutation.
Whenever Mr. Shekhar Gupta points out, Mr. Modi’s blunders in his article it is interesting to read blind bhakts comments. If you read the comments carefully anyone can point out that all comments are written by one or two individuals under different names.
Agree
I think the journalist and the publication house should hold a mirror to themselves. Guess what they find, a sold out hypocritical narcissist.
The author is a Modi basher who just loves to rub it on the BJP. One would expect the author to be “fair” while writing his columns. But time and again, he openly displays his bias against the PM. Plus, ALL his columnists are also BJP-bashers!!!
Instead of writing something hopeful and useful in this crucial time, the print is interested in showing government failure in handling the situation. My dear, learn to stand firmly with your family when worst time comes, don’t blame and and watch. Do something
good for yourselves and the society.
Like erect tin sheet walks around cremation grounds ? Get inspired by similar practices from China ?
Lo ji another andhbhakts aaagayg
This is expected from an ardent blind followers of Modi…when he alone was taking credit for the way… Covid was handled and vaccines were exported..u all were cheering for him…but no body should criticize Modi….read the article again.. for your better understanding
Liar of the century
Same repetition by Print it’s agenda is only against Modi…. Be a responsible journalist….
Print focuses on what us right and their price was all the mischief the Gujju duo instigated against them.
So Fans of Modi save your comments and visit Haridwar for salvation and safeguard from all variants of Covid ?
Is this article from the Opposition party
This news agency itself is ?
Truth always burns your bu**s,think practically kumbh and elections may have been postponed for a year and that would not have snatched food from your mouth.
Do you have election or Kumbh un MH? More than 40% cases are fm MH and 60% cases are fm opposiition ruled states. States have allowed this to go out of control and blame Modi for this. Typical commie mentality.
Do you have election or Kumbh un MH? More than 40% cases are fm MH and 60% cases are fm opposiition ruled states. States have allowed this to go out of control and blame Modi for this. Typical commie mentality.
Sun will certainly rise again, but we would have paid a very very huge cost through this dark night. All this cuz we have been induced with opium of religion by political class…
You are asking Bhakts to think… haaaaha
Mr Prakash Chandra: Does it matter where facts come from ? Why do people like you let the elected government off the hook for its mistakes, nay egregious crimes?
Fact is, the Modi government has been hell bent on shaping a false narrative around its response to the crisis and now reality is catching up with it. People like you remind me of the crazed, frenzied supporters of that charlatan Baba Ram Rahim who attacked the police because their cult leader was sentenced to prison.
The Modi government has stumbled from blunder to blunder and has not been held accountable – thanks to the BIMARU clowns and missing links like you who blindly vote for him because he terrorises Muslims and builds a temple in Ayodhya. Indeed, despite every evidence pointing to the fact that the Gujarathis were destroying democracy in India and turning it into an elected dictatorship and despite the many policy mistakes such as demonetisation, GST etc. during the first term, BIMARU voters continued to believe in the make-believe world of Modi.
As the English novelist & essayist George Orwell (1903-50) said:
“A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims, but accomplices”
Well said!
Thanks Pakku saab !
They like to vent out their frustration on Modi govt for long and THey aren’t CAPAble to Blame CHINA which got this version of virus it’s driven by CHINA who initiate this so if you pay heed to them and react it’s like a TRP hot that they earn from your reactions they WHO and UK and USA and RUSsIa cannot BLAME CHINa thus they need to blame some one hence Modi govt is the scope for blaming
I agree government had let its guard down. I agree barring PM and PMO not many ministers are competent enough and most are not blessed with proactivity. Add to that Modi is a megalomaniac al dictator. Now come to facts. At the time of writing this article, Mr Gupta was aware that most severely affected States are Maharashtra, Chattisgarh, Punjab, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh. Despite being bombarded with visuals of overflowing crematoria, Gujarat is moderately affected. Certainly a single life lost is one too many, but wasn’t the opposition and intelligentsia mocking approval of Covaxin, despite having safety and immunogenicity data? Didn’t Pfizer refuse to come to India unless given permission to market without undertaking bridging trial? Was it not always a question if Pfizer vaccine is approved it may not find wide spread distribution and not many may not find it affordable. Nevertheless, under pressure government has approved Pfizer. So pressure works more so if it is coming from INC! Did Mr Gupta analyse lassezfaire attitude of opposition states that are more busy breaking office of actors, protecting killers and collecting cut money? In poll bound states, only Modi did rally, opposition was sitting home to save public! Don’t forget onw leader wanted a march with dead bodies! At the time of Bihar poll, it was proposed to undertake virtual campaign. Opposition had declined citing no resource. Even earlier, government wanted to discuss one date for all polls, the matter was rejected before discussion. Bad bad Mody what a despot! Finally I agree Kumbh should not have allowed people participation. Sekher Ji, I would consider you balanced if you had talked about gathering at farmer protest, if you had touched upon negative RTPCR test requirement for Kumbh and low positivity despite massive gathering. So much is the anger that one of your columnist had used photograph of Prayagraj Kumbh to make her point about crowd in the gathering.
Rightly said you can’t show mirror to only Modi or Centre as this author is opposed to him Mirror should also be shown to Maharashtra UP Rajasthan Punjab Chattisgarh Delhi & few other governments too as states do groundwork & they should hv done better on ground as done states are ready to blame even after getting more ventilator etc to hide there incompetentness
No mirrors in this hall of illusions.
Why are such article written, when in entire world it is an unpredictable. When lock down was announced it was critisised – many were reluctant to take vaccine till pm did it – damed iy you and damed if you don’t- this will only bring down the credibility of Print
Comparisons tend to be odious, if things compared are not mostly comparable. In terms of just mathematics, Israel and China may be said to have fared extremely well. The people there are disciplined mostly,: or they can be disciplined especially in China by handedness.
Can you ever think this in India. What can any government do if people are careless, spurn wearing masks and ignore distancing? And what has been the role of the opposition ? Initially the opposition leaders began to deride the vaccines as BJP-vaccines, be gan to spread disinformation. States are ruled by different political parties. Covid was unknown here in India, and thanks to our neighbour China, we too had to fall for Covid virus. It requires altogether different medical equipments like PPT kits and things like that. Yet, the country was able to overcome the problems. People and media talk as if the Centre did not to anything at all to contain and control the pandemic. It has been as if the administration faces hostility. Yes, when the elections were announced, the Centre ought to have thought of the dangers involved in the election gatherings. Even leaders of every poLitical party were careless about wearing masks, not to speak of the people who gathered. And this has been continuing even now. My point is : with the type of people that we have and the attitude they display, the situation that we have now would have been the same even if some other party was in power. Our people are incorrigible, especialky the city bred. You may criticise the way you like and that is your right. At the same time, what the government has done to tackle the pandemic should also have highlighted with of course, the deficiencies therein. It is easy to criticise from outside.
Dear Critics of Sri Gupta’s writing,
Who has allowed farmers to gather? Is this not Sri Modi’s inaction and dis honouring people’s wish,was it so necessary to pass farmers act in this pandemic time, can this be not said as a cunning attitude of the concerned persons in government? Government machinery could find instant time to invoke sedition charges against domestic and international supporters of our farmers only criteria is intolerance but couldn’t devote reasonable time for futuristic rational management of vivid particularly when it has been declared by WHO and scientists that corona will in this planet for unpredictable period.
Allowing Kumbhmela is gravest mistake persons in the state and central government have committed which is not only illogical but hell and heaven difference to be compared with farmers gathering.Covid condition most probably could have been within control if central government would have consulted intermittently with groups of stakeholders including critical and supporting media instead of being euphoric ,autocratic and complacent to the real cause including vaccination.Now the blame game has started as usual.When state government is asking for vaccine which is fully controlled by union government ,ministers are replying that state govt are playing politics.Is it a reply,? If vaccine supply is adequate then why Sputnik has been ordered.Better late than never that Government Is planning now to set up more oxygen plants.PM cares fund should have been utilized much earlier for oxygen plants and enhancing vaccine production ,as PM while visiting vaccine production facilities must be knowing international obligation of SII as covishield is not developed by our scientists.
So far as election process is concerned,I do not think centra government have advised the EC regarding proactive vivid measures in area the national ruling party has started the exemplary election mahol in West Bengal even surpassing all Democratic decency in campaign by non other than high level persons in central government.God only knows when our political parties will learn Democratic manners and norms.
The moment one sees Shekhar Gupta as the person behind a report, all credibility is lost. Enjoy your rants
People like shekhar gupta are good for nothing useless blokes who have not done any good thing in their life & are used to cticising modi govt. Their only job is to criticise the govt & write paid articles. Print is another such news site.
Then why the fuc are you reading it , are you so stupid to read an article in a website found by some one you don’t trust ,or are you one of those jobless semi literate trolls who do not read beyond the first paragraph.
If I could upvote your comment a thousand times, I would. I really wonder why such people exist. Like they take pleasure in reading what angers them. They’re addicted to their hatred!
Praise them for the way they’re handling covid then douchebag.. they have blood on their hands
The author is painting as if Covid is only India phenomenon.
All countries are suffering equally due to the Chinese virus. Mirror should be shown to Chinese supporters in India.
Criticism is such an easy thing. It’s religion of Indian Media eversince BJP came in power. Remember, it’s people’s choice.
Some Real Journalism here
It’s so very easy to criticize which has become the religion of Indian Media eversince BJP came in power. Media is blind to the fact that majority of people opted for a change because they were fed up with Congress. People would vote BJP out of power it won’t fulfill their expectations.
It’s so very easy to criticize which has become the religion of Indian Media eversince BJP came in power. Media is blind to the fact that majority of people opted for a change because they were fed up with corrupt Congress. People would vote BJP out of power it won’t fulfill their expectations.
PM Modis some policy may have failed but his intention are in the interest of the nation. I had a great respect for Shekar Gupta but now leat respect because he always writes one side view which is always against Modi administration. A true journalist should be impartial but he is not. A journalist should always write about pro and cons but you, sardesai, Barka, Abisar sharms sidearth varadrajan are always finding pleasure in writing negative about PM modi all the time this what is not true journalism
You blamed Modi, good, but when you leave others, you are bolstering them. The blame is more out of your disliking of Modi. India is not Israel or China, the Central Govt has much less power. I just wish, you could have taken on RPLs and Mamta Road shows as well. But yes you are right
Sounds like the author had to set quite a context here why he is going to criticize the handling of crisis.
And eventually, he did not criticize … just a pot shot on rival media network.
Well, we cannot throw all blame to the central government. The state governments are also to be blamed since many states are considerably in better condition than others. Take for example Maharashtra. Very poor management of vaccine storage leading to shortage of vaccine. Seems like the central and state government are not thinking in same direction at all. There is visible uncoordinated behaviour majority are trying to get political gains in this dire situation.
Sorry about your observations.
Israel is a small country with desciplined people who know their responsibilities.
China is a communist dictator who rules by govt whip.
India is a democracy with ultra intellectual s who destroyed India by since 70 years through barrowed political ideologies and most of the time fake and not suitable for the kind of society we have.
We are a bunch of uneducated or half educated or pretending to be knowing everything attitude kind of highly indescieplined rascals who are to be ruled by some hard rulers.
Britishers left India fearing monkey menace.
Even 3 modis can’t change India .
Forget about rahul gandi whose only contribution to India is accuse modi with choicest words to hurt him personally and he thinks he is doing a great job. Unless these hypocrites and non-cooperative attitude ,half knowledgeable people are sidelined to make way for real leaders, India will not do well.
How many times govt announced precautionary measures but still people think they are Masters and govt is fooling them.
Also govt on its part is doing it’s best , but there are people like you to derail and pass ugly comments which is your habbit.
God save India.
EASY TO BE WISE AFTER THE EVENT, WITH BENEFIT OF HINDSIGHT…. ???
by blaming the central govt. you are letting off the hook all the state govts. they are equally responsible if not more.
Here is an avid politics watcher still talking about Modi’s 2015 suit and hoping the public will believe that this corona mess is due to Modi. On the contrary, sir. The public at large has indelible faith that if there is one PM competent to address this crisis who thinks of the poor, it is Modi. No one except the hoity-toity set sees this as a political opportunity to dislodge Modi. It would serve you better to focus at the abject mismanagement by state CMs especially in Maha and Delhi.
Dear writer
For every thing you the print against pm … thank you for writing article .. how the funk you don’t have any article on crpf sacrifice on other day ..
I kindly request you to be in centre then on left .
Shekhar I hope we should stop blaming government, politicians, bureaucrat and every one else .
Shekhar I myself see when I go for shopping almost 90 percent of the people wear mask on their chin or not at all.
How long can we be irresponsible and than blame someone else.
Also INDIA’s population is a reason for such large no of cases . I know you are SECULAR and talking of POPULATION CONTROL is not secular. However I request you to be a rabidly communal guy and talk how unless we control population through total regard for secularism we will never find resources to deal with such pandemic.
Bending rules o social distancing started much before Kumbh , state elections and the festivals . It started with the preparatory celeberations for Ayodhya . At the heart of the rebellion is the disdain for scientific thinking
Skepticism,criticism,mis-information,religious indoctrination,dogma …all these have kept people from getting vaccinated when the spread was low and vaccine was available in plenty. The miscreants have successfully kept people away from getting vaccinated with a powerful campaign and unless a national emergency is declared imposing vaccination things are not going to work…
Don’t blame the government. It is each and every one of us including you is to be blamed. We brought this upon ourselves. We the people violate norms and expect the government to fix it. This is plain stupidity on our part.
Cant add anything more. More humility required from the powers that be. The bill to curtail the powers of Aam Aadmi Party at Delhi was in bad taste.
Is Shekar Gupta a commentariat or an appendage of a political party/s. His subject matter and theme are almost predictable. He should find better ways to keep him relevant.
Why we always blame Govt. Did they get virus again. What about people being careless. Did Govt ever told that now virus is gone and don’t wear mask or follow social distancing? Media speaks as if for all elections only BJP is campaigning and all others are doing remote and virtual campaign.
Not “walked into”. Responsible.
This implies, the second wave of the virus in India has created a situation like the last two balls did for the English cricket team in the movie Lagaan. Premature celebrations? Yes, who really was celebrating?
Vaccines, yes.. The only “Ram Baan”, now. True.
Blame all the Governments by all means. That is part of the job of the media in a democracy. In the same breath do not say that democracy is dead in India. Be real. The Governments by their nature have to take some blame, definitely.
I like that “blame the people firestorm….”. In a democracy We the people are always beyond reproach. Right? . The media may not want to admit. Road accidents are always because the roads are bad or the traffic policeman was not doing his duty. Right? The sooner we the people also become more responsible for everything happening in the society, it will be better for the Nation. Let there be no doubts on this.
Tail piece: “There are two types of people in this world; those who want to know and those who want to believe” – Friedrich Nietzsche
Do military officers lead by example or give orders to their soldiers on the border and go to sleep?
Do officers on the border ask soldiers to go fight the enemy while the officer talks on the phone to push his case for promotion?
If a mission fails is the officer devoid of criticism by blaming his subordinate?
If a military fails in its duty to protect the country does the blame fall on the previous head of the military or does the current Head take responsibility?
Love the Tailpiece!!!!
Shaker Gupta is venting last seven years spleen against Modi. In an article intended to expose government’s failure to manage Covid 19 crisis, there is hardly any room to talk about a suit worn by Modi in 2015. This is no unhyphenated journalism. Main culprit for the present crisis is the irresponsible conduct of the public. Government’s failures are secondary. In 2020, when this crisis started, we did not have enought hospital beds, no ventilators, no vaccine. Now, India is better off on all these counts. Have confidence in India’s present capabilities and its future. Don’t be a doomsday prophet.
Conveniently for got ‘Farmers Protest”. Also I doubt ‘if it is not for Modi’ the situation would have been better?
For all the wisdom available in the world only three things seem to work:
1. Use of Masks
2. Social Distancing
3. Frequent Sanitization
No government in world has been able to successfully bring this behavioral change to curb the spread of Covid -19
Depending on personal leaning this is the best stick to beat any administration with.
The mirror needs to be held to our own selves, Modi looking at himself in the mirror may be satisfying for some but will do no good.
Steel ministry is involved as all integrated steel PSUs supply oxygen not cylinders. All integrated steel plants have oxygen plants and they have been supplying oxygen to fight COVID.
With the steep rise in COVID-19 cases, SAIL is fully geared up to serve the Country by supplying Liquid Medical Oxygen (LMO) with more than 99.7% purity from its steel plants. SAIL has already supplied more than *33,300 Tonnes of LMO* from its Intergrated Steel Plants located at Bokaro (Jharkhand), Bhilai (Chhattisgarh), Rourkela (Odisha), Durgapur and Burnpur (West Bengal). SAIL is committed to supply LMO as per requirement of the Country even at the cost of cutting down its own consumption.
Why don’t you provide a solution along with your criticism? Because you and your pay masters don’t have a solution – that’s why you’ve lost your credibility.
Indians have always had a lackadaisical attitude with common sense. And the central government has always been about pomp, elections and Mr. Modi and never about common sense.
Modi ji behaves more like poster-boy of BJP than PM of India.
With all the resources at hand and all the knowledge of second wave in European countries government couldn’t prepare itself fot it. More than thousand people are dying everyday. Some one should be made responsible for this carelessness. Seeing what was happening in other countries government should have stocked oxygen, vaccine and other essentials. But now they are complaining india has large population, it will take time to produce these items. Well, india had large population before we knew what corona is…isn’t it gov!!
Isn’t health a state subject? We can see different states which is handling the situation better and some like MH got their priority misplaced and screwing up .This is a try to whitewash some state governments and pin blame on only one person as usual..
I shall not post anything now, excepting one small observation. Sant Kabir Doha that is quoted in article reminds me an Abhang by Sant Tukaram meaning exactly the same, saying that ‘Nindakache Ghar Asave Shejari’ : Your critic should be your neighbour. Rest of my viewpoint I shall give subsequent to what Modi Bhakts and BJP IT Cell wizards write on this article. Their comments provide an interesting entertainment, which I enjoy very much.
You have modest goals in life. Which is good. Stay entertained. Dost abhi picture baaki hai….Part 2. In the sequel Pappu gives a smashing performance. With guest roles from MVA jokers making money hand over fist through 100 crore vasuli while corana numbers hit the sky.
1. Will people really stop from going to kumbh mela, even if govt asks them ? I dont think so. Educated folks also think that god will take care of them and that they need to go there
2. Elections : if govt had stopped the elections given covid as the reason, the opposing political parties would have said “democracy is crushed” in the name of covid.
3. Yes. Vaccine makers should have got a free hand. But what if they sold the vaccines to the world instead of selling it in india ?
4. Medical infra should have been upgraded . YES. This is something the govt failed to do. I think the govt machinery was waiting for the PM to tell them.Unfortunate.
I want the entire health dept fired. This is incompetence of astronomical proportions. When every big nation was out there buying vaccines in bulk, giving money in advance so that vaccines can be scaled up, here our great sarkar e hind has made sure it kills our vaccine industry with stupid price controls and non advanced contracts for buying. We had a parliament session in between and not a single MP seems to have asked about vaccine roadmap. Now we pay the price. The cases are raging like wildfire. We could have at least made sure we kept systems in place to scale up beds, oxygen, drugs etc. But no. We didn’t. States didn’t do it, centre didn’t do it. Now whatever reforms they planned will be stalled. Glaring incompetence. Disgusting. And i say this as modi voter.
You are right. Biggest culprit was the pretensions to be a global power. The decline started in 2016.
This is Indians doing what Indians are best at doing – self flagellation and hosting the “Blame Olympics”.
The absurd claim that we are somehow responsible for the current rise in cases is as silly as Americans blaming Trump for Covid. Covid is a reality, the fact that it was subdued earlier was due to Govt effort and despite all the same people whinning and moaning about the lockdown, the harsh rules, the stranded migrant labor and the lack of PPE – today we have PPE, we have the medciines, we have the infrastructure in our hospitals and we even have vaccines.
In a country that couldn’t vaccinate every child even for Polio for decades it is the urban delusional classes who believe that 1.3 billion people will be vaccinated overnight just because the Americans who have hoarded the vaccine and their raw materials are throwing billions at a problem in a way India can’t!
People who talk about peice controls are the same crowd that waxes about the “responsibility of the State” had tbe Govt allowed the market to set the prices. The same people who navel gazed and quibbled about the efficacy of Covaxin and demonized the vaccine are the ones who now give sermons about insufficient vaccine availability!
Hypocrisy is another unrecognised pandemic raging in parallel and unfortunately though it isnt deadly, it certainly has no vaccine!
Continue to blame Govt – because we are after all sheep and sheep cant be responsible for their own welfare.
what is it Raj that makes you love Modi so romantically, that you write such fine english sentimental garbage. At least tell your PM to stop attending rallies even now. But he thinks as always Bengal victory can exonerate him from Second wave accountability.
Next time write something too When Modi takes all the credit of work done by others, which he notoriously does almost every single time.
I really believe Modi is really hansome and have a very muscular face and strong voice. So much even straight men raise their heartbeat at even a slightest glimpse of their hero.
He is an incompetent person that’s a fact. People still like him is also a fact. People liked Indira even after emergency. People voted out Atalji because they don’t like him while accepting the fact that he was honest and competent too.
The only criterion to win elections is that whether people like you or not. you can be a womanizer (Trump), corrupt and cruel (Indira), incompetent but handsome and macho :MOdi. Look Modi is really good and careful at his image management. He works almost as hard as a new celebrity heroin works for her image management. That hard work in front of camera and through media agents really pays off. Also some political gimmicks and show off also earn him million votes too.And Jumlas are always there.
Be careful not to have an orgasm in your sleep with hehehehe Mitron ;))
Modi needs to go .Please vote for Rahul Gandhi atleast he will make a machine to produce lot of vaccines.I am sure everyone will be empowered under his rule and will aspire to become model citizens like waze.India doesn’t deserve the visionary leadership of Shri Rahul Gandhi.Its criminal to not harness talent of leaders like Rahul Gandhi.Sad state of affairs!