COVID-19: Lockdown leads to loss of jobs, says Devendra Fadnavis

Stating that people lose their jobs when a lockdown is imposed senior BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis on Monday alleged the Maha Vikas Aghadi MVA government is not serious about providing any financial aid to the vulnerable sectionsTaking a dig at the state government amid talks that an extended lockdown is imminent in Maharashtra in view of a steep rise in COVID19 cases Fadnavis said there is a lockshahi in the state now instead of lokshahi democracyThe Leader of Opposition in the Legislative Assembly was addressing a rally for the upcoming bypoll to PandharpurMangalvedha Assembly constituency in Solapur district The BJP has fielded Samadhan Autade against Bhagirath Bhalke son of late MLA Bharat Bhalke of the Nationalist Congress Party NCP for the April 17 contestWhen this government came into power it was called as Maha Vikas Aghadi but now it has become a Maha Vasooli extortion Aghadi The way they have started the vasooli from police farmers and the common man it shows that all the three ruling parties Shiv Sena NCP and Congress have only one agenda and that is to collect money from wherever itis possible he allegedFadnavis was referring to the allegations of corruption raised by former Mumbai police chief Param Bir Singh against then home minister Anil Deshmukh an NCP stalwart The former chief minister also said the highest number of COVID19 cases and fatalities are being reported from MaharashtraIn the last ten days 50 to 55 per cent of the total deaths in the country were reported from Maharashtra Similarly 60 per cent of the total cases in the country were also reported from Maharashtra he saidFadnavis said I can understand locking and unlocking to contain the spread of coronavirus is important but when a lockdown is imposed people lose their jobs Unfortunately the state government is not at all conscious about providing financial help to the vulnerable people He said governments in Chattisgarh Madhya Pradesh and Karnataka have helped the common man and farmersIt is the responsibility of the state government to help the people in distress but this MVA government instead of helping people is recovering power bills from them like the Jizya tax that used to be imposed in the Mughals era Fadnavis saidHe said the state government has stopped disconnecting power connections of people who have failed to clear their dues due to this byelection But you will see that the government will resume snapping power connections after the bypoll is conducted on April 17 he claimedFadnavis said West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee the communists and the Congress will receive a big jolt on May 2 when results of the assembly polls held in five states will be outSpeaking at another campaign rally Fadanvis said People may think what difference a bypoll will make to change the state government Leave it to me when to change this government We will change that but for now this bypoll is important as the people of this constituency have got the opportunity to show the government its placeThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever