The ruling BJP and Congress on Sunday lashed out at each other after a video went viral of a state minister and his supporters breaking coconuts and a priest chanting prayers in front of a tanker transporting oxygen from neighbouring Gujarat.
A sharp spike in Covid-19 cases across MP has given rise to a reported shortage of medical oxygen.
In videos being circulated on social media, MP PWD minister Tulsiram Silawat and his supporters can be seen offering prayers in front of the tanker in Indore, and posing in front of the vehicle for media photographs.
"When the tanker, which started from Jamnagar in Gujarat, reached Chandan Nagar Chowk on Saturday night, it was stopped for an hour by Silawat for puja paath to quench their thirst for media coverage. They repeated the act when the vehicle reached a filling station," MP Congress spokesperson Neelabh Shukla alleged.
"They did this nautanki when there is an acute shortage of oxygen in hospitals and serious patients are gasping for breath," he added.