Capt Amarinder Singh failed to manage spread of virus, says SAD

Chandigarh, April 12

Former union minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal today said widespread shortcomings in the management of Covid reported by the central team that visited the most-affected districts of the state was an indictment of CM Capt Amarinder Singh who banned political activities of the Opposition instead of improving medical infrastructure and healthcare system.

Asserting the CM was directly responsible for the present state of affairs, she said the mortality rate in the state was one of the highest in the country as Capt Amarinder had refused to take control of the situation from the beginning.

“The CM isolated himself in his farmhouse and subsequently, Punjab witnessed scams in procurement of Covid-care items, large scale irregularities in testing, scams in procurement of Covid kits and shortage of ventilators and ambulances. All this resulted in people shunning government facilities,” she said. — TNS