Mumbai: Maharashtra minister of state for Revenue Abdul Sattar has slammed the BJP for organising protests on streets amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.
“The BJP will be responsible if the state is hit by a second wave of COVID-19 pandemic. The BJP is playing politics by gathering people (for protests),” Sattar told reporters in Nanded on Friday.
He ruled out the possibility of a lockdown in old format at this juncture.
“The BJP is gathering people for protests and morchas.
If this continues and if Maharashtra faces a second wave of coronavirus pandemic, the BJP will be responsible,” he said.
In a recent meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray had raised the issue of “some parties” holding protests in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic, without naming the BJP.
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