‘Centre should offer ₹5 lakh compensation to families of COVID-19 victims’

Congress leaders need the Union authorities to offer not less than ₹5 lakh compensation to every of the families that misplaced its family members to the COVID-19 pandemic. The celebration welcomed Supreme Court’s criticism of National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), of which Prime Minister is the ex officio chairperson, for ‘failing to perform its duty’ to advocate ex gratia for families of those that had misplaced their family members to COVID-19.

Addressing mediapersons in Kalaburagi on July 1, Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee spokesperson and Chittapur MLA Priyank Kharge and former minister Sharan Prakash Patil mentioned that the apex court docket had been pulling up the NDA authorities and reminding it of its duties all through the well being disaster created by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Mr. Patil mentioned, “It is an abdication of responsibility on the part of the Union government to refuse to pay compensation to the kith and kin of COVID-19 victims. It was because of the government’s failure to provide hospital beds, oxygen, ventilators and the required medicines that caused the deaths. The government should have taken the responsibility and paid compensation. It is shameful on the part of the government to refuse to hand over compensation. If the apex court had not intervened, we would have not been provided oxygen, hospital beds and vaccines. I thank the court for its active intervention.”

Obliquely referring to the Central Vista Redevelopment Project, Priyank Kharge slammed the Union authorities and Prime Minister Narendra Modi for ‘spending around ₹20,000 crore for their ambitious project while refusing compensation to COVID-19 victims’ families’.

In response to a query, Mr. Priyank referred to a letter written by Indian Medical Association (IMA) to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and mentioned that the medical physique had, within the very first level within the letter, demanded stringent punishment to those that unfold misinformation and false claims on treatments for COVID-19.

“BJP leaders claimed that consumption of cow urine would prevent and cure COVID-19. BJP leaders claimed that the performance of homa (invoking consecrated fire) would protect the country from the pandemic. Union Health Minister Dr. Harsh Vardhan endorsed Patanjali’s Divya Coronil tablets for the treatment of COVID-19 without any scientific evidence. As IMA has demanded, these people should first be punished for the misinformation and false claims,” Mr. Priyank mentioned.