The Uttarakhand Congress has accused the state government of surrendering meekly before the novel Coronavirus (Covid-19).
Talking with the media persons at the state headquarters of the Congress here on Sunday, the vice president of Uttarakhand unit of the party, Surya Kant Dhasmana said that the Trivendra Singh Rawat government has come into a surrender mode as things are now getting out of its control. Raising a question mark over the functioning of the government, he said that the contagion of Covid-19 is continuously spreading in the state.
He said that the state government has reduced the testing rate of the samples and the backlog of untested samples is increasing.
Dhasmana said that the condition of quarantine centres is not improving even after the reprimand of the Uttarakhand High Court (HC).
He said that the number of containment zones is increasing in the state and Dehradun district alone now has two dozen containment zones.
He added that the Sabji Mandis of the state have become epicenters of the infection but sample testing is being done only in Dehradun’s Niranjanpur Sabji Mandi.
The Congress leader demanded that the sample testing should be undertaken in all the Sabji Mandis of the state.
He suggested that the chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat should convene a meeting of all political parties and take suggestions and ideas of everyone.
He said that a task force for Covid-19 should be constituted in Uttarakhand for effective fight against the disease. Dhasmana said that a long term plan is needed to be prepared and implemented for Covid-19. He claimed that though the Congress party is always ready to cooperate, the Uttarakhand government has remained indifferent.