Centre Wants States To Say No Deaths Due To Oxygen Crisis: Manish Sisodia

No one can deny that Delhi grappled with an oxygen crisis during the second Covid wave and that people died due to a shortage of oxygen, Manish Sisodia said.

Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia today said Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal has again rejected the Delhi government's proposal to form a panel to "investigate deaths due to oxygen shortage" in the national capital. No one can deny that Delhi grappled with an oxygen crisis during the second Covid wave and that people died due to a shortage of oxygen, Mr Sisodia said during an online press conference. "We had resubmitted a file for the constitution of a panel to probe deaths due to oxygen shortage. The LG (lieutenant governor) is saying that there is no need for that," he said. The deputy chief minister said that on one hand, the Centre has been asking states to tell how many people died due to oxygen shortage and on the other, "You have not been allowing us to investigate such deaths". "Then how will states tell?" he asked.