Cabinet reshuffle | An admission that Modi government failed to manage pandemic: Congress

Former Finance Minister P. Chidambaram mentioned on Wednesday that the resignation of Harsh Vardhan because the Health Minister throughout the Cabinet reshuffle is an admission that the Narendra Modi government had “utterly failed” in managing the corona pandemic.

Ministers should realise that if issues go flawed they would be the fall guys, he mentioned in a few tweets.

“The resignations of the Union Health Minister and the MoS Health is a candid confession that the Modi government has utterly failed in managing the pandemic. There is a lesson for Ministers in these resignations. If things go right the credit will go to the PM, if things go wrong the Minister will be the fall guy. That is the price a Minister pays for implicit obedience and unquestioning subservience,” the previous Finance Minister mentioned on twitter.

His occasion colleague Jairam Ramesh tweeted, “Poor Dr. Harsh Vardhan, a good man has been made a scapegoat for monumental failures at the highest level — nowhere else”.

Mr. Chidambaram additionally mentioned since Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank had resigned because the Education Minister, the National Education Policy (NEP) must also be scrapped.

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Commenting on the train to rejig the Cabinet, occasion common secretary and chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala mentioned it was not a cupboard enlargement, however “distributing the spoils of power” and “defector adjustment programme”.

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He mentioned if efficiency and governance have been the factors, then Defence Minister Rajnath Singh ought to have been sacked, because the Chinese had occupied Indian territory and refused to vacate; Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman ought to have gone, because the financial development was now minus 8% and Home Minister Amit Shah ought to have stepped down as naxal assaults and mob lynchings continued “unabated”.

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“If performance and governance was the criteria then the first person to be sacked should be the Prime Minister of India, Shri Narendra Modi, for he has brought the government, the entire country to a standstill, progress, peace and harmony has been thrown in the dustbin of history and the present Prime Minister would be remembered as an autocrat…,” Mr Surjewala added.

Leader of the Opposition within the Rajya Sabha, Mallikarjun Kharge, tweeted, “Congratulations to the newly appointed ministers in the GoI. I am hopeful that the new cabinet will work with great integrity & honesty for the nation.I am optimistic that @PMOIndia” won’t wrest all of the powers & ministers might be in a position to delegate their obligations freely.”