‘Politics over dead bodies, Congress style’: Harsh Vardhan reacts to Rahul Gandhi’s remark on India’s Covid death numbers

The remarks drew a pointy response from Union Well being Minister Harsh Vardhan who in contrast Congress to a “vulture on earth”.

The central authorities on Wednesday got here down onerous on the Congress after its leaders shared a report by a world information publication which claimed speculative dying figures as a attainable state of affairs of the Covid-19 impression in India. Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi and different leaders of the Congress shared a report by the New York Occasions, which claimed that the precise dying figures might be considerably greater than the official dying rely. ‘Numbers don’t lie however the Authorities of India does’, Rahul wrote whereas sharing the report on Twitter.

The remarks drew a pointy response from Union Well being Minister Harsh Vardhan who in contrast Congress to a “vulture on earth” that does politics over lifeless our bodies. “Politics on lifeless our bodies, @INCIndia Fashion! Though vultures are disappearing from timber, evidently their vitality is being absorbed by the vultures of the earth. @RahulGandhi Ji trusts #NewYork greater than #Delhi. One ought to study doing politics on corpses from the vultures on the earth,” mentioned Harsh Vardhan.

लाशों पर राजनीति, @INCIndia स्टाइल !

पेड़ों पर से गिद्ध भले ही लुप्त हो रहे हों, लेकिन लगता है उनकी ऊर्जा धरती के गिद्धों में समाहित हो रही है।@RahulGandhi जी को #Delhi से अधिक #NewYork पर भरोसा है।

लाशों पर राजनीति करना कोई धरती के गिद्धों से सीखे।@PMOIndia @BJP4India https://t.co/29D0yWU5wS

— Dr Harsh Vardhan (@drharshvardhan) May 26, 2021

Earlier, senior Congress chief P Chidambaram additionally questioned the official dying toll figures and mentioned that the Centre, with the assistance of some states, was hiding the true dying figures.

Notably, the event comes at a time when Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh have been dealing with criticism for allegedly hiding the dying toll.

India presently has 24,19,907 lively circumstances whereas the official dying figures stand at 3,15,235. In complete, India has registered over 2,73,69,093 COVID-19 circumstances whereas 2,46,33,951 individuals have recovered from the illness as of Might 27.