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You must be a Stalin fan. That’s why you seem yo blind to the good work by the TN government
Mr.EPS has surprised the people of TN even before COVID. He has been receiving accolades for being easily accessible to the people and being considerate to the opinions of IAS officers. This has been the case with neither Jayalalitha nor Karunanidhi. We were pleasantly surprised that he didn’t hesitate to close TASMAC well before COVID worries gathered momentum. After maintaining silence for a long time, he has been quite vocal and giving fitting responses to the opposition in the recent past. Mr.Stalin was quite sure that he will be the next CM but it is not so obvious anymore.
Kejriwal had to stop the Religious meeting and huge gathering at Nizamudhin. Probably, kejriwal did not stop it to please the Minority. HM Shah did not interfere, due to fear of back lash from Opposition, and Minorities, as had happened in the case of CAA. Finally the poor Citizens had to pay a huge price. This is Politics. This was actually the work through 42nd amendment of Indian Constitution in 1976. We are not enjoying the Constitution, authored by Honb’le Ambedkar, and passed by our Constitution Assembly, though the credit of Constitution goes to him. But the preamble is changed.
Who is this guy D K Singh ? Are these the kind of ‘opinions’ you write for a consideration ? It’s not even close to a ‘considered’ opinion. The Print, by publishing such low quality articles, you’re credibility is getting a serious dent.
and resist the temptation to make it communal. all religions, all sects, all faiths have spread it. and as far as jamaat issue is concerned Shri D.N. Singh knows that Maharashtra cancelled a similar event on march 14. Mr. Kejriwal and the home ministry led by Shri Amit Shah will have to answer a lot of questions regarding the permission and belated action on 27 march allowing things to deteriorate. March 11 Kejriwal declared emergency and on march 13 Home under Shah declared that there is no emergency. The jammat congregation was just 100 m away from the police station. There is something more to the story than what meets the eye. Mr D. N. Singh should marshal courage to critically analyse these facts if he has the courage to do it. Instead of falling into the trap of the govt to shift blame , both kejriwal and central govt especially Amit Shah, to divert the inordinate delay in reacting to the evolving situation. Come on Sir. Show some spine.
even while broadly agreeing with the author, the conscious or in-advertent, i do not know, omission of any reference to the performance of the Kerala Govt and Pinarayi Vijayan is beyond my understanding . The first state to declare an emergency, 20000 crores package, strict control, least no of deaths, and yesterday the no of recoveries were more than the number infected and under treatment. Still the author has chosen to ignore. Understandable. Reporting is not opinion making influenced by one’s own likes and prejudices but dissemination of unbiased news leaving the judgement to the readers. Journalistic ethic. Unfortunately D.N. Singhji for whom I have great regard has been found to be wanting this time. The print is absolutely justified in its anti left position and i respect it but when you are giving news please be impartial.
Shri Sekar Gupta must ask the central govt regarding the February 21 modi trump bonhomie in gujarat in which lakhs of people gathered. please remember WHO declared a pandemic in February well before this grand show. and on February 22 jaggi vasudev , a known cronie of the present establishemnt organised maha shivrathri shivir in which thousands of foreign bhakts and lakhs of local bhakts paraticipated. Coimbatore has the second hgihest number of infected persons. Any connection? were the foreigners who came tested and wht was the resutl. Come on. Fearless journalists like Shri Gupta and D. N. Singh should ask these questions to the powers that be. And the vice president of the nation attended it. I am a regualar reader of print and continue to do so. But my belief and faith in your impartiality is getting a big knock. Sorry for that
Why bring Tablighis in this story? IS UK demonising ISKON? Is France demonising the Evangelical church? Is any one apart from Trump demonising New Yorkers? Yet, all these groups have contributed substantially to the spread of the disease in their respective countries. And why forget Kerala? They have done exemplary work!
ANY COMMENTS BY “THE PRINT” ON WHO’S FAILURES LED CORONAVIRUS ENTER INDIA THROUGH AIRPORTS. WHO CONTROLS ARRIVALS AT AIRPORTS?
WHO’S FAILURE IN DETECTION, LOCKDOWN/QUARANTINE LED VIRUS CARRIERS TO SPREADING IT FROM PASSPORT HOLDER PEOPLE’S ARRIVALS TO POOR RASHANCARD HOLDERS?
Dear Shekar Sir, pls refrain from such ill informed opinion makers, let him come down to Kerala and understand what are preventive measures and the results, Kerala has controlled from 42 cases to 2 today. This is a story to report !!
Hi,
I belive most of so called “Journalist ” tumb up to CM’s are whetehr they r doing press conference daily or not.Not releated to increase in count/death happening in that state .
Just taking top 5 states.All thetop 4 states are doing great becasue they r doing daily press conference .
Maharashtra close to 2000 and every day count is increasing 200+
Delhi 1000+ and every day count is increasing 100+
Tamil Nadu 1000+ and every day count is increasing 100+
Rajasthan close to 1000 and every day count is increasing 100+
Madhya Pradesh close to 700 and every day count is increasing 100+
The sole purpose of article was to call out the inefficiencies of few chief ministers by endorsing an unlikely one, I felt. Ignoring Kerala and the efforts taken by the state from January 30th onward come as a surprise for me! Being a research scholar in one of the University in Delhi, the lack of seriousness was way too evident in dealing with Covid 19 by many states including Delhi. The kind of war front put up by Kerala in dealing Covid has come to Delhi only after the Janta Curfew and lock down period! I guess the author should call out inefficiency of various chief ministers rather than endorsing one against the other. Kerala has set an example, so does Bhilwara from Rajasthan. It is the same Tamil Nadu which discharged few of its Covid patients over a clerical mistake! Moreover, the number of reporting has to be assessed before making any conclusions! It will be good if some pieces appear on states like Kerala and Odisha which dealt with the crisis in a better way. Thanks!
You are absolutely right. Even i was wondering what happened to the good work done by Kerala in this fight against CORONAVIRUS and COMMUNAL VIRUS.
THIS ARTICLE ESTABLISHES THAT “THE PRINT” HAS NO JOURNALISTIC ETHICS BUT PAID ARTICLES ARE PUBLISHED
Sir, Kerala’s commendable job is being praised world wide for sure. I think the main purpose of this article is to highlight EPS govt’s success which the author feels is not being done anywhere. But Kerala’s achievement is now known at International level.
I dont know what facts, numbers, data made the writer of the article think that Kejriwalji did better than Nitish Kumarji, Yogi Aditynathji & Shivaraj Chauhanji. With no data mentioned i am assuming its probably a figment of writer’s imaagination.
As to other aspects mentioned in the article Thiru Palanisamy did a great job as did Naveen Patnaikji. Uddhav Thackeraji?? I doubt.
The CMs mentioned by you are doing great job by not doing sufficient number of testings. The policy of these states is;
“NO/FEW TESTING,
NO/FEW POSITIVE CASES”
The more tests are done detection and numbers of positive will possibly be higher in UP, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal, etc.
Yes. It was a surprise for many in Tamil Nadu including me. These guys are trying hard to prove their capabilities. They seems successful as of today.
Testing rates in tamil nadu are the worst in India…. This government is all about hushing up things and cover ups… Yes they all give interviews daily and make their faces seen in media but that doesn’t mean the government is doing fine….. For me kerala which reported the first case and greatly brought down new infections and deaths are doing a good job….
I don’t know how a media can praise a government which doesn’t provide proper PPE and lets its doctors contract the Virus (10-15 doctors have contracted the virus ) as proper functioning unless paid to publish….
Wrong. This is targeted testing. TN only scans people who were first quarantined, then scan people who’ve had symptoms. Not like other states (except Kerala) where you scan every tom dick and harry. Once the primary group, immediate relatives and secondary contacts were scanned, testing was expected to go big bang. This is evident from the fact that 1600 people who had SARI were scanned in the last 2 days and NONE had tested positive for corona . That speaks the level of maturity in distinguishing between an real suspect and a false suspect. So in this line TN govt is blessed with good bureaucrats and a good health infrastructure. And your claim that 10- 15 doctors got virus needs further inspection. It is a combination of doctors and nurses. Most of the docs were private practitioners and private hospitals, especially 2 in tuticorin and coimbatore. PPE’s were not provided to sanitation workers (of course its a blot) . And your accusation that this is a cover up is applicable for all states and countries.
The one thing which is not good in TN (like in Kerala and Karnataka) is unity among politicians. DMK has played some disgusting politics through their supportive media like Nakkeeran by turning the tablighi incident as a hindu muslim war by equating this with Sadguru’s Esha event only to have egg on their face. This absolutely stopped the govt from going hard on people who attended the event.
By and far with an honest view EPS has done a better job than Jayalalitha in her tenure on how the chennai floods were dealt or Karunanidhi when every possible land was looted and people were forced to sell their lands.
Praising Kejriwal is just ridiculous
Shocked to say he did better than others. This man did not bother to implement Physical Distancing measures well in advance. Waited for election win. Did not bother to even offer solace to those who were killed in North East Delhi. If he had implemented Physical distancing not in public places but even in Places of worship, the event in Nizamudin coulf have been forced to cancel and Msrquaz (hostel could have been cordoned off). Though he got overwhelming support to retain the power, he failed them and now taking shelter under pretext of TJ like other failed CMs
Sir, pls look down to further which was first state to report Covid and the first state to flattened the curve with more CURED than Covid positive. And being the state with more than 35% NRIs predominantly from gulf region who is the most vulnerable. Kerala model is a talk of the planet now… and you have no mention if it!!!
SAWAL: “AAKAL BADE KE BAHENS ”
NARENDRA MODI: “BAHENS BADE”
CORONAVIRUS IMPORTED BY MODI THROUGH AIRPORTS.
Rich Passport holders brought virus,
Poor Rashancard holders bearing price.
13.5 LAKH AAMIR LOGO KO AIRPORTS SAY 21 DIN LOCKDOWN KE JAGAH 135 CRORE KO LOCKDOWN KRR RAHA HAI JISS MAI AADHIK GAREEB HAI.
PEOPLE WHO CAME AT AIRPORTS 13.5 LAKHS WERE RICH PEOPLE, THEY SHOULD HAVE BEEN LOCKDOWN FOR 21 DAYS RATHER THAN LOCKDOWN OF 135 CRORES OF WHICH MAJORITY ARE POOR PEOPLE
“Tamil Nadu, the first to respond to Covid-19 threat”
This is factually incorrect. The first COVID19 case was reported in Kerala on 3rd January 2020 followed by the immediate response of the state. Its okay that you give biased reports. But give based on FACTS!!!!
R u on drugs…..? U r not just paid media, but slave media.
The most callous state as far as COVID 19 management is concerned. Forget 90%, why don’t u blame everything on Tablighi jamaat event….. If there is one state that can compete for absolute mismanagement then mr.palaniswami would be top.
Absolute crap of an article. Just a disclaimer that ‘ views are personal’ won’t help.
Ask people living in Tamil Nadu to endorse these achievements! Such a stupid spineless Governance..
You must be a Stalin fan. That’s why you seem yo blind to the good work by the TN government
Mr.EPS has surprised the people of TN even before COVID. He has been receiving accolades for being easily accessible to the people and being considerate to the opinions of IAS officers. This has been the case with neither Jayalalitha nor Karunanidhi. We were pleasantly surprised that he didn’t hesitate to close TASMAC well before COVID worries gathered momentum. After maintaining silence for a long time, he has been quite vocal and giving fitting responses to the opposition in the recent past. Mr.Stalin was quite sure that he will be the next CM but it is not so obvious anymore.
Kejriwal had to stop the Religious meeting and huge gathering at Nizamudhin. Probably, kejriwal did not stop it to please the Minority. HM Shah did not interfere, due to fear of back lash from Opposition, and Minorities, as had happened in the case of CAA. Finally the poor Citizens had to pay a huge price. This is Politics. This was actually the work through 42nd amendment of Indian Constitution in 1976. We are not enjoying the Constitution, authored by Honb’le Ambedkar, and passed by our Constitution Assembly, though the credit of Constitution goes to him. But the preamble is changed.
Who is this guy D K Singh ? Are these the kind of ‘opinions’ you write for a consideration ? It’s not even close to a ‘considered’ opinion. The Print, by publishing such low quality articles, you’re credibility is getting a serious dent.
Well said!
hahaha. why all comments have been removed. Wah!!!!Sekarji least expected from you
and resist the temptation to make it communal. all religions, all sects, all faiths have spread it. and as far as jamaat issue is concerned Shri D.N. Singh knows that Maharashtra cancelled a similar event on march 14. Mr. Kejriwal and the home ministry led by Shri Amit Shah will have to answer a lot of questions regarding the permission and belated action on 27 march allowing things to deteriorate. March 11 Kejriwal declared emergency and on march 13 Home under Shah declared that there is no emergency. The jammat congregation was just 100 m away from the police station. There is something more to the story than what meets the eye. Mr D. N. Singh should marshal courage to critically analyse these facts if he has the courage to do it. Instead of falling into the trap of the govt to shift blame , both kejriwal and central govt especially Amit Shah, to divert the inordinate delay in reacting to the evolving situation. Come on Sir. Show some spine.
even while broadly agreeing with the author, the conscious or in-advertent, i do not know, omission of any reference to the performance of the Kerala Govt and Pinarayi Vijayan is beyond my understanding . The first state to declare an emergency, 20000 crores package, strict control, least no of deaths, and yesterday the no of recoveries were more than the number infected and under treatment. Still the author has chosen to ignore. Understandable. Reporting is not opinion making influenced by one’s own likes and prejudices but dissemination of unbiased news leaving the judgement to the readers. Journalistic ethic. Unfortunately D.N. Singhji for whom I have great regard has been found to be wanting this time. The print is absolutely justified in its anti left position and i respect it but when you are giving news please be impartial.
Shri Sekar Gupta must ask the central govt regarding the February 21 modi trump bonhomie in gujarat in which lakhs of people gathered. please remember WHO declared a pandemic in February well before this grand show. and on February 22 jaggi vasudev , a known cronie of the present establishemnt organised maha shivrathri shivir in which thousands of foreign bhakts and lakhs of local bhakts paraticipated. Coimbatore has the second hgihest number of infected persons. Any connection? were the foreigners who came tested and wht was the resutl. Come on. Fearless journalists like Shri Gupta and D. N. Singh should ask these questions to the powers that be. And the vice president of the nation attended it. I am a regualar reader of print and continue to do so. But my belief and faith in your impartiality is getting a big knock. Sorry for that
Why bring Tablighis in this story? IS UK demonising ISKON? Is France demonising the Evangelical church? Is any one apart from Trump demonising New Yorkers? Yet, all these groups have contributed substantially to the spread of the disease in their respective countries. And why forget Kerala? They have done exemplary work!
Well Done EPS.
ANY COMMENTS BY “THE PRINT” ON WHO’S FAILURES LED CORONAVIRUS ENTER INDIA THROUGH AIRPORTS. WHO CONTROLS ARRIVALS AT AIRPORTS?
WHO’S FAILURE IN DETECTION, LOCKDOWN/QUARANTINE LED VIRUS CARRIERS TO SPREADING IT FROM PASSPORT HOLDER PEOPLE’S ARRIVALS TO POOR RASHANCARD HOLDERS?
SHAME ON YOU “THE PRINT” YOURS IS A BIASED ARTICLE WHO MAY HAVE BEEN FACILITATED BY SOMEONE TO PRAISE SOMEONE AND DEFAME OTHER.
Disclaimer: Views are personal
Dear Shekar Sir, pls refrain from such ill informed opinion makers, let him come down to Kerala and understand what are preventive measures and the results, Kerala has controlled from 42 cases to 2 today. This is a story to report !!
Hi,
I belive most of so called “Journalist ” tumb up to CM’s are whetehr they r doing press conference daily or not.Not releated to increase in count/death happening in that state .
Just taking top 5 states.All thetop 4 states are doing great becasue they r doing daily press conference .
Maharashtra close to 2000 and every day count is increasing 200+
Delhi 1000+ and every day count is increasing 100+
Tamil Nadu 1000+ and every day count is increasing 100+
Rajasthan close to 1000 and every day count is increasing 100+
Madhya Pradesh close to 700 and every day count is increasing 100+
News is little and unrelated matters are too Much..
The sole purpose of article was to call out the inefficiencies of few chief ministers by endorsing an unlikely one, I felt. Ignoring Kerala and the efforts taken by the state from January 30th onward come as a surprise for me! Being a research scholar in one of the University in Delhi, the lack of seriousness was way too evident in dealing with Covid 19 by many states including Delhi. The kind of war front put up by Kerala in dealing Covid has come to Delhi only after the Janta Curfew and lock down period! I guess the author should call out inefficiency of various chief ministers rather than endorsing one against the other. Kerala has set an example, so does Bhilwara from Rajasthan. It is the same Tamil Nadu which discharged few of its Covid patients over a clerical mistake! Moreover, the number of reporting has to be assessed before making any conclusions! It will be good if some pieces appear on states like Kerala and Odisha which dealt with the crisis in a better way. Thanks!
You are absolutely right. Even i was wondering what happened to the good work done by Kerala in this fight against CORONAVIRUS and COMMUNAL VIRUS.
THIS ARTICLE ESTABLISHES THAT “THE PRINT” HAS NO JOURNALISTIC ETHICS BUT PAID ARTICLES ARE PUBLISHED
Sir, Kerala’s commendable job is being praised world wide for sure. I think the main purpose of this article is to highlight EPS govt’s success which the author feels is not being done anywhere. But Kerala’s achievement is now known at International level.
I dont know what facts, numbers, data made the writer of the article think that Kejriwalji did better than Nitish Kumarji, Yogi Aditynathji & Shivaraj Chauhanji. With no data mentioned i am assuming its probably a figment of writer’s imaagination.
As to other aspects mentioned in the article Thiru Palanisamy did a great job as did Naveen Patnaikji. Uddhav Thackeraji?? I doubt.
The CMs mentioned by you are doing great job by not doing sufficient number of testings. The policy of these states is;
“NO/FEW TESTING,
NO/FEW POSITIVE CASES”
The more tests are done detection and numbers of positive will possibly be higher in UP, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal, etc.
Yes. It was a surprise for many in Tamil Nadu including me. These guys are trying hard to prove their capabilities. They seems successful as of today.
I disagree…
Testing rates in tamil nadu are the worst in India…. This government is all about hushing up things and cover ups… Yes they all give interviews daily and make their faces seen in media but that doesn’t mean the government is doing fine….. For me kerala which reported the first case and greatly brought down new infections and deaths are doing a good job….
I don’t know how a media can praise a government which doesn’t provide proper PPE and lets its doctors contract the Virus (10-15 doctors have contracted the virus ) as proper functioning unless paid to publish….
Wrong. This is targeted testing. TN only scans people who were first quarantined, then scan people who’ve had symptoms. Not like other states (except Kerala) where you scan every tom dick and harry. Once the primary group, immediate relatives and secondary contacts were scanned, testing was expected to go big bang. This is evident from the fact that 1600 people who had SARI were scanned in the last 2 days and NONE had tested positive for corona . That speaks the level of maturity in distinguishing between an real suspect and a false suspect. So in this line TN govt is blessed with good bureaucrats and a good health infrastructure. And your claim that 10- 15 doctors got virus needs further inspection. It is a combination of doctors and nurses. Most of the docs were private practitioners and private hospitals, especially 2 in tuticorin and coimbatore. PPE’s were not provided to sanitation workers (of course its a blot) . And your accusation that this is a cover up is applicable for all states and countries.
The one thing which is not good in TN (like in Kerala and Karnataka) is unity among politicians. DMK has played some disgusting politics through their supportive media like Nakkeeran by turning the tablighi incident as a hindu muslim war by equating this with Sadguru’s Esha event only to have egg on their face. This absolutely stopped the govt from going hard on people who attended the event.
By and far with an honest view EPS has done a better job than Jayalalitha in her tenure on how the chennai floods were dealt or Karunanidhi when every possible land was looted and people were forced to sell their lands.
Praising Kejriwal is just ridiculous
Shocked to say he did better than others. This man did not bother to implement Physical Distancing measures well in advance. Waited for election win. Did not bother to even offer solace to those who were killed in North East Delhi. If he had implemented Physical distancing not in public places but even in Places of worship, the event in Nizamudin coulf have been forced to cancel and Msrquaz (hostel could have been cordoned off). Though he got overwhelming support to retain the power, he failed them and now taking shelter under pretext of TJ like other failed CMs
Sir, pls look down to further which was first state to report Covid and the first state to flattened the curve with more CURED than Covid positive. And being the state with more than 35% NRIs predominantly from gulf region who is the most vulnerable. Kerala model is a talk of the planet now… and you have no mention if it!!!
Absurd dk singh .in praise of kejriwal when hes main culprit for entire country spread…please stop eulogoising stupids
SAWAL: “AAKAL BADE KE BAHENS ”
NARENDRA MODI: “BAHENS BADE”
CORONAVIRUS IMPORTED BY MODI THROUGH AIRPORTS.
Rich Passport holders brought virus,
Poor Rashancard holders bearing price.
13.5 LAKH AAMIR LOGO KO AIRPORTS SAY 21 DIN LOCKDOWN KE JAGAH 135 CRORE KO LOCKDOWN KRR RAHA HAI JISS MAI AADHIK GAREEB HAI.
PEOPLE WHO CAME AT AIRPORTS 13.5 LAKHS WERE RICH PEOPLE, THEY SHOULD HAVE BEEN LOCKDOWN FOR 21 DAYS RATHER THAN LOCKDOWN OF 135 CRORES OF WHICH MAJORITY ARE POOR PEOPLE
“Tamil Nadu, the first to respond to Covid-19 threat”
This is factually incorrect. The first COVID19 case was reported in Kerala on 3rd January 2020 followed by the immediate response of the state. Its okay that you give biased reports. But give based on FACTS!!!!
Surprising that Mr. Pinarayi Vijayan and kerala is not even in the honorable mention category. Bizzare biased reporting!!
R u on drugs…..? U r not just paid media, but slave media.
The most callous state as far as COVID 19 management is concerned. Forget 90%, why don’t u blame everything on Tablighi jamaat event….. If there is one state that can compete for absolute mismanagement then mr.palaniswami would be top.
Is your name MK Stalin?
Great work during crisis time. They need to be appreciated by all. Leave headline management to others.