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The Congress has said that the resignation of the Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan is a candid confession that the Narendra Modi government has utterly failed in managing the pandemic.
Former Finance Minister and senior MP of the party, P Chidambaram, said there is a lesson for ministers in these resignations. "If things go right the credit will go to the PM, if things go wrong the Minister will be the fall guy. That is the price a Minister pays for implicit obedience and unquestioning subservience," Chidambaram said in Twitter.
Another leader Jairam Ramesh said Vardhan was made a scapegoat. "Poor Dr Harsh Vardhan, a good man has been made a scapegoat for monumental failures at the highest level — nowhere else," Ramesh said.
AICC general secretary Randeep Singh Surjewala said what happened on Wednesday was not a cabinet expansion, but a distribution of spoils of power and defectors' adjustment expansion.
Surjewala told reporters that if performance and governance was the criteria then the first person to be sacked should be Prime Minister Modi. He said Modi has brought the entire country to a standstill, and progress and peace and harmony have been thrown in the dustbin of history.
He said Modi would be remembered as an autocrat, who decimated India’s economy, who ensured India was pushed into an abyss of unemployment and who ensured that India’s strength as the super power of the 21st century was grossly undermined.
He said the first minister to be sacked should be the Defence Minister of India Rajnath Singh for "under his charge China has occupied Indian territory and are refusing to vacate it and the PM and Defence Minister are scared of uttering the word China."
Surjewala said Home Minister Amit Shah should also be sacked for under his charge Naxalism and terrorism continue unabated, only repression of human rights has become the norm and custodial death of activists has become the practice. "Mob lynching is the new Mantra of this government under his charge," he said.
On Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, Surjewala said she also should be sacked. "Manmohan Singh and Congress left the government when GDP was growing at almost 8 per cent and it is now -8 per cent (minus 8 percent). Unemployment, inflation and deficit are galore and Finance Minister has no comprehension of the word ‘finance’," he said.
The Congress has said the resignations of the Union Health Minister, Harsh Vardhan, and the MoS for Health, Ashwini Kumar Choubey, is a candid confession that the Narendra Modi government has utterly failed in managing the pandemic.
Former Finance Minister and senior MP of the party P Chidambaram said there is a lesson for ministers in these resignations. "If things go right, the credit will go to the PM, if things go wrong, the Minister will be the fall guy. That is the price a Minister pays for implicit obedience and unquestioning subservience," Chidambaram said in Twitter.
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Another leader Jairam Ramesh said Vardhan was made a scapegoat. "Poor Dr Harsh Vardhan, a good man has been made a scapegoat for monumental failures at the highest level — nowhere else," Ramesh said.
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