New Delhi: Congress on Monday demanded compensation for each RS 10 lakh against the family of all Covid victims in the country, said the government had no right to govern if it could not give it.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said the government could provide compensation to the family affected by Covid from taxes collected on gasoline and diesel.
“The family affected by Covid can be compensated from a small portion of gasoline-diesel tax collection – this is their needs and right.
The Modi (Narendra) government should not return from this opportunity to provide assistance to the public in a disaster,” he said in a tweet in language Hindi.
Congress spokesman Gourav Vallabh said the government had to pay Rs 40,000 Crore as compensation for Covid victims, which was only 10 percent of Rs 4 Lakh Crore which had been obtained from customs on gasoline and diesel last year.
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He said so far, nearly four lakh people have lost their lives and more than three crores have been infected with Coronavirus, but the government is not ready to separate with even 10 percent of the money that has been obtained from last year’s tax.
Vallabh accused the government “distorting” the action of disaster management to refuse compensation to the family of victims Covid.
He said the government had failed the people and had no right to rule after insulting people who died and weaken the state fight against Covid.
Valabh said compensation must be paid to the victims when they died due to lack of oxygen and negligence of the government.
“The Congress demands that the government include Covid-19 in natural disasters and compensate for each RS 10 lakh each of their families who died because of that,” he said.
Noting that this will be a debt of the country that is grateful to the families of the deceased, the leader of the Congress said that it did not provide this compensation to be an insult to the forefront workers who had put their lives against a pandemic from the front line.
“The government that cannot provide Rs 10 Lakh to the deceased family does not have the right to power,” he said.
Vallabh said even though the government was talking about saving lives and livelihoods, it was not done because of an incompetent management of management and handling pandemic.
The Indian middle class has shrunk by 3.2 crores and 7.5 crore people driven below the poverty line by 2020, he said, adding that in accordance with the Indian Economic Monitoring Center (CMIE), close to 97 percent of Indians became more poor over the past year , , she says.
“It is clear that lives and livelihoods have suffered badly.
But the big problem is that the BJP government has left the community alone in this fight and does not seem disturbed at all,” Congress leader added.
In March 2020, the Interior Ministry decided to treat Covid-19 as a “notification disaster” but when compensation demand was carried out, the government took U-turn in the Supreme Court by saying that it could not be called disaster and best pandemic, he said.
The center affidavit submitted at the APEX court on June 19 was a blow to the state fight against COV-19, added Vallabh.
He said it was not only a constitutional obligation but which was moral as well as those who lost their lives in the pandemic must be given compensation for each RS 4 lakh.
“We will not allow the government to ignore this notification unconstitutionally,” said Congress leader.
“What support has been given the government to families who died so far and why are reluctant to compensate them?” He asked.
The Head of Congress Spokesman Randeep Surjewala said it was shocking and embarrassing that the government denied compensation to the Covid victim’s family.
“Surprisingly and embarrassing.
The Modi government told the Supreme Court – Covid was not a disaster.
The victim’s family Covid-19 did not have the right to compensate.” But BJP collects Rs 4 lakh crore per year from fuel booty.
Releasing Rs 10 Lac as compensation for the victim’s kins or resigning, “he tweeted.
Gandhi said the country would like to know the truth about the Covid vaccine when he quoted a news report claiming that the government gave a different number for vaccination.” The country hopes to get the truth of those who do not know what the truth is, “said the former Congress’s head in a tweet in Hindi and using the” Vaccinejumla “hashtag.