The community flagged off dharma raths, which will traverse all the 26 Lok Sabha constituencies in the state and appeal to people to vote for Congress, the organisers said.
Unused ventilators at Rajkot Civil Hospital
Rajkot: The congress on Saturday alleged that nearly 100 ventilators are lying unused and gathering dust at the Rajkot Civil Hospital (RCH) while people are dying due to shortage of the device. However, the civil hospital rejected the allegations.
Senior congress leader Gayatriba Vaghela found large number of unused ventilators during an inspection of the hospital on Saturday. “The medical superintendent told me that these ventilators were allocated by the government just 15 days ago and the process of installing them has begun.
“But the question is when there is a tremendous shortage of ventilators why the hospital took two weeks to install the same? Are these ventilators out of order or does the hospital doesn’t have staff to install these machines,” Vaghela told TOI.
Congress candidate celebrates his victory in Rajkot
Rajkot: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) could not repeat its stellar show of Surat in Rajkot. But the party, which did not win a single seat here, was the Congress’ nemesis and helped
The Congress, which was reduced to just four seats from 33, conceded that AAP was a spoiler for them.
“AAP damaged us a lot. The traditional voters voted for AAP, which benefited BJP in some of the Congress stronghold areas,” claimed Hemang Vasavada, a senior Congress leader.
Nearly two dozen Congress heavyweights including the city president Ashok Dangar, Gayatriba Vaghela and Atul Rajani were sent home packing as the party failed to capitalize on issues like skyrocketing fuel prices, joblessness due to Covid-induced lockdown and resentment over heavy mask penalties which even the BJP feared could dent its chances in some wards.