New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a 21-day nationwide lockdown Tuesday night, prompting one set of panicked citizens to rush to shops, while another set stormed Twitter. Read on.
Author and former journalist Samrat sees a contradiction in the modalities of the lockdown. Are you also confused?
Grocery shops and medical stores will be open, but going out is a punishable offence, and delivery services have halted operations. So how's this supposed to work?
— Samrat X সম্রাট (@MrSamratX) March 24, 2020
A perennial Modi government critic, film director Anurag Kashyap expresses his gratitude to the PM. Or, is he being sarcastic? You never can tell with him…
Thank you ?? https://t.co/DNBe6dOmxl
— Anurag Kashyap (@anuragkashyap72) March 24, 2020
Lockdown? What lockdown? Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath doesn’t seem to know about it. Talk about leadership by example…
अयोध्या करती है आह्वान…
भव्य राम मंदिर के निर्माण का पहला चरण आज सम्पन्न हुआ, मर्यादा पुरुषोत्तम प्रभु श्री राम त्रिपाल से नए आसन पर विराजमान…
मानस भवन के पास एक अस्थायी ढांचे में 'रामलला' की मूर्ति को स्थानांतरित किया।
भव्य मंदिर के निर्माण हेतु ₹11 लाख का चेक भेंट किया। pic.twitter.com/PWiAX8BQRR
— Yogi Adityanath (@myogiadityanath) March 25, 2020
Popular Youtuber Dhruv Rathee and Congress’s Srivatsa remind the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh that he is flouting his own government’s rules.
CM Yogi Adiyanath breaks the lockdown rules on first day itself!
How shameless! pic.twitter.com/TdVJ1h2qyS
— Dhruv Rathee ?? (@dhruv_rathee) March 25, 2020
We need leaders who plan 3 months ahead
But we have leaders who don't follow what was ordered 3 hrs ago
Adityanath holds a religious event today morning
Govt Guideline, Pt 9 : "No religious congregation will be permitted without any exemption"
Please arrest him @narendramodi pic.twitter.com/TClTrODDky
— Srivatsa (@srivatsayb) March 25, 2020
Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, meanwhile, leads the way in setting aside partisan politics.
I am glad that #Rajasthan was the first state to announce complete lock down. I support 21 days of lock down announce by PM Mr Modi. Together Lets fight and defeat #Corona #राजस्थान_सतर्क_है
— Ashok Gehlot (@ashokgehlot51) March 24, 2020
Bollywood star Amitabh Bachchan shares a photograph of how social distancing is like a board game...
T 3481 -" Social Distancing " .. The ingenuity of the Indian .. disciplined, careful, and filled with the observance of its duty .. remain safe , follow instructions ..??????????
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JAI HIND pic.twitter.com/f8IFYcIClp— Amitabh Bachchan (@SrBachchan) March 25, 2020
Puducherry Governor Kiran Bedi has a similar visual from the union territory.
In Puducherry Milk booth.
Social distancing… pic.twitter.com/1nhoZZkyhS— Kiran Bedi (@thekiranbedi) March 25, 2020
Meanwhile, actress Gul Panag speaks for a lot of people who are still bewildered by India’s low rate of infection.
One thing is clear, given the magnitude of the lockdown, one can no longer believe the official count of #COVID2019 inflected.
— Gul Panag (@GulPanag) March 24, 2020
Former Union Health Secretary K Sujatha Rao is not pleased with how the lockdown is playing out, especially when Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao’ talks of “shoot-at-sight”.
The social cost of the lock down will be immense. I don't have the courage to even begin the count. The day is hardly broken and a CM has even talked about shoot at sight. Is that the imagination of leadership?
— healthiswealth (@sujakrao) March 25, 2020
The irony of finding himself in yet another lockdown is not lost on former J&K Chief Minister Omar Abdullah.
These are serious & scary times so a little humour doesn’t hurt. pic.twitter.com/V0NA7tb0sU
— Omar Abdullah (@OmarAbdullah) March 25, 2020
“I am an enemy of the society, I don’t stay at home” — that’s what curfew defaulters are being made to declare as punishment by the Assam police.
Do you want to click a Photograph like this ?
We @BiswanathPol have one Placard for anyone who comes out without any reason @assampolice@DGPAssamPolice#Behaveyourself#LockDown pic.twitter.com/eUgeJ9mMdK— Biswanath Police (@BiswanathPol) March 25, 2020
With inputs from Yimkumla Longkumer