The Youth Congress on Saturday alleged that
millions of people in the country faced difficulties during the Covid
pandemic for shortage of hospital beds, oxygen and specialist facilities,
for which thousands died though no one knows exactly how many.
Youth Congress State president Dr Smruti Ranjan Lenka accused the
Modi Government of hiding the real death statistics. While the World
Health Organsiation (WHO) claims that in India 47 lakh people died due
to Covid, the Central Government says the number of fatalities is only
4.8 lakh.
He demanded that the Government set up an all-party Covid
Commission to bring to the fore the real death toll. Besides, each
deceased’s family should be provided Rs 4 lakh as an interim
compensation.
Lenka said that while thousands of dead bodies were floating in the
Ganges during the pandemic. When people were struggling for life
during the first and second Covid waves, it was the Youth Congress
which supplied oxygen, arranged beds and cremated bodies under the
leadership of its national president Srinivas BV.