A BJP MLA from Hardoi, Uttar Pradesh, has contradicted his own party’s claim in Parliament that no one in India died due to shortage of oxygen during the second Covid-19 wave.

Commenting on a Facebook a post of journalist Anand Mishra, who had posted newspaper cuttings of letters of some MLAs in which the issue was raised, Shyam Prakash wrote, “You have told the truth, I agree with you, hundreds of people died in agony due to lack of oxygen. No one can see the pain of lakhs of families, including that of MLA Rajkumar Agarwal [who lost his son].” However, on Monday Prakash said he was not talking about UP.