India’s ruling party admits for first time that ‘responsibility is ours’ for Covid crisis Maroosha Muzaffar Replay Video UP NEXT India’s ruling party has admitted for the first time that the responsibility for the coronavirus catastrophe across the country belongs “first and foremost” to the government. In an interview with CNN , Narendra Taneja, a spokesperson for the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), said: “We are in power; we are the government in India, so of course responsibility is first and foremost ours, good or bad, whatever it is.” “It is our responsibility and we’re trying our very level best,” Mr Taneja told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Thursday.