On Sunday, 55-year-old Indian Interior Minister Amit Shah, described as the country’s second-largest politician after Prime Minister Narendra Modi, announced that he had tested positive for the new coronavirus. He explained that he had mild symptoms and had been admitted to Medanta, a gymnasium in the town of Gurugram, Haryana state, northern India.
Shah’s remedy at this personal hospital will be overseen by a team of physicians from India’s largest medical institute, the government-run All India Institute of Medical Sciences, founded in Delhi.
On the same day, the chief minister of Karnataka state in southern India, B S S Yediyurappa, also a member of the Bharatiya Janata and Shah party of Modi, also tested positive for COVID-19. He entered Manipal Hospital, a personal gymnasium in the capital of Karnataka, Bengaluru, where doctors announced that he was clinically stable.
In total, 4 high-ranking politicians and the governor of the southern state of Tamil Nadu tested positive for COVID-19 on Sunday. All sought medicine in personal fitness facilities.
Tamil Nadu Governor Banwarilal Purohit, who underwent physical fitness checks at a personal hospital in Chennai, the state capital, reported on the insulation of the house. Two leaders of Prime Minister Modi’s Bharatiya Janata party in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, Swatantra party president Dev Singh and water minister Mahendra Singh, have been admitted to personal hospitals.
VICE News reviewed press reports where the main points of the remedy for 22 elected representatives across India who tested positive for the new coronavirus since April 2020 were to be in the public domain. Only two of them opted to move to public fitness facilities.
Those who liked personal fitness services included Madhya Pradesh Central State Chief Minister and BJP Leader Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Tamil Electricity Minister Nadu P Thangamani and BJP Deputy Jyotiraditya Scindia.
Uttar Pradesh Technical Education Minister Kamal Rani Varun and Satpal Maharaj, from the northern state of Uttarakhand, were the two who signed in government-run facilities. Varun, 62, died of comorities on August 2. She tested positive on July 18 and was admitted to the Sanjay Gandhi Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, administered by the state government, in Lucknow, the capital of Uttar Pradesh.
Opposition politicians and journalists have criticized leaders, especially Interior Minister Shah, for his personal facilities.
When Delhi’s Health Minister Satyendar Jain tested positive for COVID-19 on June 15, he first entered Rajiv Gandhi Super Specialized Hospital, run by the Delhi government. However, as his fitness deteriorated, he moved to Max De Saket Hospital in Delhi, a personal facility. He explained his resolve to move from a public hospital to a personal hospital by admitting that the public hospital did not have services for plasma treatment.
India’s own fitness service providers have been seriously criticized for overcharging COVID-19 patients. Successive Indian governments have been criticized for spending less, in line with capital, on public fitness. This means that non-public spending accounts for 70% of all fitness spending in the country, and on-site fitness care costs about 4 times more than public fitness facilities.
The recent wave of COVID-19 control effects occurs days before the occasion in the city of Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh to inaugurate the newly built temple base for the Hindu god Ram.
The promise of a Ram temple in Ayodhya, considered the cradle of the god in Hindu mythology, a component of the BJP’s electoral manifesto from 1996 to 2019. This after Hindu nationalist volunteers named Kar Sevaks took part in a crusade led by BJP leaders and destroyed a mosque called Babri Masjid on the site in 1992. This caused network riots across the country.
The rite follows a Supreme Court verdict in 2019 that allowed the structure of a temple on the disputed site.
PM Modi, 69, is among those scheduled to attend the occasion. Organizers to organize the occasion despite the control of the temple priest and 4 positive security guards at COVID-19 last week. They even claimed that other people under the age of 90 can attend the occasion, possibly to allow the assistance of senior political leaders. Journalists had pointed out that Prime Minister Modi’s presence would be a violation of his own government’s popular operating procedure, which prohibits others over the age of 65 from visiting places of worship.
After high-ranking politicians were positive, some BJP leaders and pillars of the Ram Temple movement, such as Uma Bharathi, canceled their visit.
While Uttar Pradesh’s chief minister, Yogi Adityanath, was in a position to make a stopover at the Ram Temple site on Sunday, he cancelled his planned stopover after Minister Varun’s death.
Digvijaya Singh, a member of Parliament and senior leader of Congress, suggested Prime Minister Modi postpone The of Ram Mandir, saying it would be “inappropriate” to continue the festivities at the time.
India reported 52,972 cases of COVID-19 on Monday, crowning world ratings for the first time in the daily number of outdoor cases in any country. India is also the third most affected country, with more than 1.8 million cases shown and 38,135 deaths.
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