Rahul Gandhi slams Centre over deaths due to shortage of oxygen, ICU beds
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Congress continues attack on government’s handling of COVID-19 pandemic
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Congress continues attack on government’s handling of COVID-19 pandemic
Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Friday said the Centre was responsible for people dying due to shortage of oxygen and Intensive Care Unit (ICU) beds in the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Corona can cause a fall in oxygen level but it’s #OxygenShortage & lack of ICU beds which is causing many deaths. GOI, this is on you,” tweeted Mr. Gandhi, who himself tested positive and is in home isolation.
States must jointly negotiate uniform vaccine price with manufacturers: Chidambaram
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Last Updated: Apr 23, 2021, 01:53 PM IST
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Synopsis The best way forward is for the state governments to jointly form a Price Negotiation Committee and offer to negotiate a uniform price with the two vaccine manufacturers, the Congress leader said in a series of tweets.
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Terming the Centre s decision to allow multiple prices for vaccines discriminatory , senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Friday suggested states to jointly form a price negotiation committee to work out a uniform rate with the manufacturers. Chidambaram also accused the central government of having abdicated its responsibility and surrendering to corporate profiteering.
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After longtime Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away in September, President Trump and then-Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell both made it clear that a nomination to replace her would be made and that confirmation hearings would be held before Election Day. This infuriated the left, who began calling for adding Justices to the Supreme Court otherwise known as “packing the court.”
Because Democrats were getting hammered with questions on court-packing, they tried to change the definition to mean filling existing vacancies. For example, Joe Biden said in October that “the fact is that the only packing going on is this court is being packed now by the Republicans after the vote is already begun.”
Bengal Polls: 23% Candidates Contesting Phase 8 Face Criminal Cases, Says ADR
The report said that 17 candidates have declared cases related to attempt to murder (IPC Section-307) against themselves.
Phase six voting in Bengal on April 22. Photo: PTI
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New Delhi: Out of the 283 candidates contesting in the last phase of the West Bengal polls, 23% have declared criminal cases against themselves, a report by the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) stated.
The West Bengal Election Watch and the ADR have analysed the self-sworn affidavits of all the 283 candidates from 35 constituencies, who are contesting in the polls to be held on April 29.
Along with his written complaint, Dedge attached a screenshot of the social media post, which wrongly mentioned about the death of 78-year-old Mahajan.