TRS govt. to be blamed for COVID spike: Bandi Sanjay

‘Govt. done little to improve health infrastructure and is now criticising the Centre for everything’

Telangana Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has claimed that the COVID-19 situation is alarming across the State and the government here is trying to shift the blame on the Central government to cover up its own “lackadaisical attitude”. “The TRS government has been underreporting deaths and cases despite many, from old to young, dying in droves due to lack of proper medicare in government facilities and unable to pay the high bills in the private hospitals. Has this government or Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao conducted a single review meeting on the COVID management? People have been left to fend for themselves like last year,” charged party president Bandi Sanjay Kumar at a press conference on Wednesday. The BJP had approached the State Election Commission (SEC) and Governor seeking postponement of local body polls but with the TRS wanting to win the elections at any cost, did not pay heed and it had no option but to fight it out. “We followed all COVID protocols and did not organise huge meetings like the Chief Minister’s which became a super spreader,” he maintained, brushing away questions about “political parties responsibility in controlling the virus spread”.