Centre wants states to say no deaths due to oxygen shortage: Manish Sisodia

Following Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal's rejection of the Delhi government's plan to create a panel to probe deaths due to oxygen scarcity, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia stated that the Centre wants states to claim that no deaths were caused due to oxygen shortage.

Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal has again rejected the Delhi government's proposal to form a panel to "investigate deaths due to oxygen shortage" in the national capital. No one can deny that Delhi experienced an oxygen crisis during the second Covid wave in April and May, and no one can refute that people perished in the capital owing to a lack of oxygen, he said during an online press conference.