Centre discrediting Maha, non-BJP states for pandemic mismanagement: Sanjay Raut

Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut on Monday slammed the Centre saying that it is discrediting the Maharashtra government in controlling the pandemic because it is not a BJPruled stateSpeaking to ANI here today Raut said I see a big reason to discredit MaharashtraWhere there is no BJP Government the state government is said to have failed in controlling coronavirus Where there is a BJP chief minister there is no coronavirusHis remarks came days after Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan accused the Maharashtra government of misgovernance in tackling COVID19 saying that it has followed utterly casual approach and is putting the residents in danger by letting people escape institutional quarantine mandate for the sake of their personal vasuliIn a statement the Health Minister said he had seen statements made by public representatives in Maharashtra about the shortage of vaccines and asserted that it was nothing but an attempt to divert attention from Maharashtra governments repeated failures to control the spread of pandemicThe minister said the lackadaisical attitude of the state government has singularly bogged down the entire countrys efforts to fight the virus and the lack of effortHe accused the Shiv Senaled Maha Vikas Aghadi government in Maharashtra of focusing its energies on playing politics and spreading lies to create panicSpeaking about the spike in the number of COVID cases across the country Raut saidThe failure belongs to the central governmentThis battle is being fought under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra ModiTaking a dig at the BJP after the Gujarat party president CR Patil announced that 5000 doses of Remdesivir would be made available free of cost by the party in Surat amid reports of Gujarat facing a shortage of the same in the state Raut said BJP headquarters in Gujarat are getting as much vaccine as they want but the same is being denied to MaharashtraThe BJP headquarters in Gujarat are getting as much doses of Remdesivir as they want but it is not being made available to the Maharashtra government he addedMeanwhile COVID19 cases continued to increase at an alarming rate in Maharashtra with as many as 63294 new infections and 349 deaths reported on Sunday the state health department saidThere were 565587 active cases in the state A total of 2782161 recoveries and 57987 deaths were reported in the state on SundayThis 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