Mumbai: Shiv Sena slams Modi government for Central Vista project amid pandemic

The Shiv Sena on Saturday said that while smaller countries in the neighbourhood are offering help to India to tackle Covid19 the Modi government is not even ready to stop the work of the multicrore Central Vista projectThe party also said that the system created in the past 70 years by previous prime ministers including Pandit Nehru Indira Gandhi and Manmohan Singh has helped the country live through the tough times that it is facing todayThe UNICEF has expressed fear that there is a threat to the world from India due to the pace at which coronavirus is spreading in the country It has also made an appeal that maximum number of countries should help India in the fight against Covid19 Bangladesh has sent 10000 Remdesivir vials while Bhutan has sent medical oxygen Nepal Myanmar and Sri Lanka have also offered help to aatmanirbhar India the Sena said in an editorial in its mouthpiece SaamanaIn clear terms India is surviving on the system created by NehruGandhi Many poor countries are offering help to India Earlier countries like Pakistan Rwanda and Congo used to get help from others But due to the wrong policies of todays rulers India is going through that situation now it saidBut while poor countries are helping India in their own way Prime Minister Narendra Modi is not ready to stop the ambitious project of Central Vista worth Rs 20000 crore the Sena addedThe party expressed surprise that nobody feels regret that on the one hand India accepts aid from countries like Bangladesh Sri Lanka and Bhutan while on the other Modi is not ready to stop work on the multicrore Central Vista project for construction of a new Parliament building and the house of the prime ministerThe redevelopment project of the Central Vista the power corridor of the country envisages a new triangular Parliament building a common Central Secretariat and the revamping of the threekmlong Rajpath from the Rashtrapati Bhavan to India Gate and new residences for the prime minister and the vice presidentThe Sena said that even as the world is battling a second wave of Covid19 experts have predicted that the third wave will be more severe But the ruling BJP is doing all it can to corner Mamata Banerjee in West Bengal even todayA sensitive and a nationalist government would not have thought about the political pros and cons and set up a national panel of all main political parties to discuss ways to defeat the pandemic the Uddhav Thackerayled party saidBJP MP Subramanian Swamy has demanded that Union minister Nitin Gadkari be given the charge of the health ministry and this is a proof that the current union health ministry has been a complete failure it addedIndia has reported the highest number of Covid19 deaths in the last 10 days Globally one out of the five active patients is in India In the last ten days 36110deaths have occurred Every hour there are 150 Covid19 deaths in the country We have left USA and Brazil behind in terms of deaths due to virus The world fears India now the Sena saidAccording to it several countries have stopped their citizens from travelling to India and our country is bearing the economic brunt of the pandemicThe country is presently surviving thanks to the development works projects set up by and the confidence given by the previous governments of Pandit Nehru Lal Bahadur Shastri Indira Gandhi Rajiv Gandhi P V Narasimha Rao Manmohan Singh it saidThe prime minister will have to do a lot of hard work and think of nonpolitical nationalism to help the country come out of the pandemic it saidOn Friday Congress leader Rahul Gandhi had attacked the Union government over the Central Vista project terming it a criminal wastage and asked the dispensation to focus on peoples lives