Chandigarh, May 9
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Punjab president and Member of Parliament Bhagwant Mann said that the Supreme Court of the country has sealed the failure of Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led BJP government at the centre while hearing cases related to the Covid-19 pandemic. In a statement issued from the party headquarters here on Sunday, Bhagwant Mann said that besides reprimanding the central government for not providing proper healthcare services across the country, the apex court has taken stern action for the discrimination against the states and failure to supply oxygen.
Mann said that in view of the deaths due to Covid, the apex court had said that due to lack of preparedness of the government, the people had to lose their lives; neither the government itself could provide oxygen nor control the black market. Therefore, the Supreme Court had to set up a task force to ensure rational and equitable distribution of oxygen, he added. “If the condition of government health facilities was not so bad then people would not have to face this day nor would the Supreme Court have to come forward to save the people of the country. We have to thank the esteemed judges of the Supreme Court for this,” said Mann. He demanded that the government should provide free oxygen to the Covid patients at their homes.
Criticising Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh, Mann said that during the Covid period in Punjab, even if some were dead or alive, Captain Amarinder Singh was resting in his farmhouse indifferently. Accusing Captain Amarinder Singh, he said that Captain had so far not visited a single patient and had not gone to any hospital to review the situation. “Captain Amarinder Singh during his tenure had not set up a single hospital with state of the art facilities in the state where the Chief Minister or his ministers could go and get treatment,” he added. Mann also appealed to the Chief Minister to come out of the cold valleys and make proper arrangements for medicines, oxygen and treatment for the people of the state.
