Uttarakhand Minister Seen With Mask Hanging Off Toe. Photo Goes Viral
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The Uttarakhand government has been criticised for its perceived soft handling of a massive Covid surge that swept through the country two months ago.
At a time when experts are urging strict precautions amid warnings of a third wave of Covid, an Uttarakhand minister has been caught sitting in a meeting with a mask hanging off his toe. The photo has gone viral and has been slammed as a show of egregious callousness by the minister, Swami Yatishwaranand. Yatishwaranand, a Minister of State in Uttarakhand's BJP government, is not the only one in the photo without a mask. Four others in the meeting are maskless, including two more ministers, Bishan Singh Chuphal and Subodh Uniyal. "This is the seriousness of the ruling party's ministers. And then they punish poor people for not wearing masks," tweeted Congress spokesperson Garima Dasauni. She questioned what message the minister was giving to the masses when lakhs had suffered or lost their lives in the second surge of Covid in April-May.
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