Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta on Tuesday hailed the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government's support during the Covid-19 pandemic and said that the Centre stepped up when the previous government was "hiding".
Addressing a press conference along with Delhi BJP chief Virendra Sachdeva, Gupta said the Centre also helped the earlier governments but now that help is being recognised."Remember the Covid time. Had the Centre government not been there, what would have happened? I cited data that said that only 97 families were provided COVID-19 compensation after losing their loved ones in Delhi. According to the Delhi government, only 97 people died during that time. But crematoriums were full of bodies. The Centre supported the people of Delhi at that time," she said.
Gupta said that the Centre provided free ration to nearly 80 lakh people at that time when the then-Delhi government was "hidden" behind closed doors.She stated that the Centre has allocated Rs 960 crore under the Dilli Gramodyog Yojana, and road projects worth Rs 1.25 lakh crore are currently underway in the national capital.
"The Centre has been helping the Delhi government, be it in cleaning Yamuna or clearing garbage mountains. The Centre provided help to previous governments also but now that help is being acknowledged," she added. Sachdeva said that people have the faith that everything is possible if Prime Minister Modi is there.
"Modiji has given the country a new governance motto - Reform, Perform and Transform - which is giving new dimensions of development to the new India," he added.
It may be recalled there was huge spike in coronavirus infections in Delhi during COVID 19 wave 2 , resulting in a number of Covid patients dying for want of medical attention. In several cases, even if a patient was lucky enough to find a bed, it wasn’t before several hours of waiting. Worse , hundreds desperate Covid patients from the capital due to collapse of health infrastucture rushed to neighbouring states like Madhya Pradesh and Punjab to get treated in hospitals.
Delhi CM while lashing out at previous AAP government mentioned the scale and severity of the unfolding Covid-19 crisis in Delhi and at the same time lauded how union government at that point of time offered huge support to UT government in handling the crisis.
After that crisis, the AAP government in Delhi claimed many times that it would be ramping up its healthcare infrastructure to deal with the Covid surge, but there is a clear mismatch between official data and reality.
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