Upping the ante on the coronavirus situation in Maharashtra, a delegation of the Opposition BJP, led by former Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, on Tuesday complained to Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari about the “ineffective handling” of the Covid-19 spread in the State by the Shiv Sena-led MVA Government and submitted a memorandum listing its various demands.
Talking to media persons after meeting the Governor, Fadnavis said: “The health situation in Maharashtra is worsening in the state. Today, we have highest number of Covid-19 cases in Maharashtra. Nearly 30 to 33 per cent of total infected cases are in Maharashtra, while the state accounts for 40 per cent of total deaths. Infected cases and deaths are multiplying ever6y day”.
“ In Mumbai, patients are not getting beds and ambulances. They are going from one hospital to another. Patients are dying on the way to hospital. In a way, tThe health situation is totally crippled in the state,” the BJP leader said.
Fadnavis said that the condition of farmers in the state was also grim. “In our memorandum, we have requested the Governor to ask the government to start the purchase of agricultural produce from the farmers. In addition, we have also requested the Governor to ask the state government to stop the walking migrant workers going to their states going by foot and send them back to their respective states by buses and trains”.
Fadnavis urged the state government to announce a relief package for daily waged workers, along the lines of the one given by the Modi government.
Taking a dig at NCP chief Sharad Pawar, Fadnavis said: “ Pawar sahib keeps writing letters to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking reliefs to various sections of the people in the state. He should write a similar letter to Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray seeking a relief package for the poor and needy people in the state”.
“Our @BJP4Maharashtra delegation submitted a memorandum to Hon Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari Ji to highlight alarming situation in Maharashtra due to the gross negligence of MVA Govt in handling #COVID- 19 crisis...,” Fadnavis tweeted.
Apart from Fadnavis, the other BJP leaders who were part of the delegation that met the Governor were: Ashish Shelar, Atul Bhatkhalkar, par5t MPs Gopal Shetty and Manoj Kotak, and former minister Vinod Tawde.