
AAP govt. covering up oxygen deaths: Bidhuri
The Hindu
‘It is trying to wriggle out of paying compensation to victims’
Leader of the Opposition in the Delhi Assembly Ramvir Singh Bidhuri on Tuesday expressed shock and surprise at the Delhi government’s assertion that it did not have a count of patients who died due to shortage of oxygen in the Capital during the second wave of COVID-19 infection. Mr. Bidhuri alleged that the government was trying to indulge in a cover-up of the deaths of innocent citizens by indulging in “petty politics” and, though it could collect data regarding such deaths “in one week”, its intention was to not do so. “There is a deliberate attempt to manipulate the deaths of innocent citizens and one of the main reasons is that the Arvind Kejriwal government is trying to wriggle out of paying compensation to those who died during the second wave,” Mr. Bidhuri alleged.
In , the grape capital of India and host of the Simhastha Kumbh Mela every 12 years, environmental concerns over a plan to cut 1,800 trees for the proposed Sadhugram project in the historic Tapovan area have sharpened political fault lines ahead of local body elections. The issue has pitted both Sena factions against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which leads the ruling Mahayuti alliance in Maharashtra. While Eknath Shinde, Deputy Chief Minister and Shiv Sena chief, and Uddhav Thackeray, chief of the Shiv Sena (UBT), remain political rivals, their parties have found rare common ground in Tapovan, where authorities propose clearing trees across 34 acres to build Sadhugram and a MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conferences and Exhibitions) hub, as part of a ₹300-crore infrastructure push linked to the pilgrimage.












