Amid Rumours of Leadership Change, BJP Brass’s Thumbs-Up for Adityanath in Handling Covid Crisis
In what can be seen as an assurance for Yogi Adityanath, a top BJP leader who visited Uttar Pradesh for a тАЬreviewтАЭ exercise heaped praise on the chief minister for the handling of the coronavirus crisis and reducing the daily case count by тАЬ93 per cent within five weeksтАЭ.
тАЬIn five weeks, @myogiadityanathтАЩs Uttar Pradesh reduced the new daily case count by 93% тАж Remember itтАЩs a state with 20+ Cr population. When municipality CMs could not manage a city of 1.5Cr population, Yogiji managed quite effectively,” BL Santosh, the BJPтАЩs national general secretary of organisation, tweeted after his return from Lucknow.
The tweet comes as an affirmation for the UP government ahead of a critical election next year in the state as well as amid rumours that the BJP top brass was planning a change of leadership at the very top, including replacing the Chief Minister or his two deputies.
Santosh and UP BJP in-charge Radha Mohan Singh attended a two-day review meeting in the state capital as criticism of the governmentтАЩs handling of the Covid-19 crisis spiralled. Images of bodies floating in the Ganga river or buried in shallow graves beside it from many districts in UP have found their way to international publications.
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What has added to AdityanathтАЩs bag of worries is reports of the partyтАЩs MLAs and MPs airing grievances against their own government to the media. A few days ago, party MLA from Sitapur (Sadar) Rakesh Rathore said he might face sedition charges if he spoke too much as he criticised the Yogi governmentтАЩs handling of the pandemic.
тАЬVidhayakon ki haisiyat kya haiтАжHum jyada kahenge to desh droh, raj droh humpe bhi to lagega (What is the status of an MLA? If we speak too much, then we too will have to face sedition charges),тАЭ the MLA said when he was asked why the trauma centre project in Sitapur district was still non-operational.
The Allahabad High Court while hearing a PIL over the coronavirus spread and the condition of quarantine centres in UP, said, тАЬThe entire medical system in villages and small cities of Uttar Pradesh is at GodтАЩs mercy (тАЬRam bharoseтАЭ). A High Court Bench of Justices Siddharth Verma and Ajit Kumar made the observation while taking into account the death of Santosh Kumar (64), who was admitted to an isolation ward at a Meerut hospital. The doctors there failed to identify him and disposed of the body as unidentified, according to a probe report.
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