Mamata Banerjee Calls Resurgence Of COVID-19 In India "Modi-Made Disaster"

Bengal Election 2021: Hitting out at PM Modi, Mamata Banerjee said "India is facing a Modi-made disaster. Modi babu will have to take responsibility on why medicines to treat COVID-19 are not available in the market... You have to provide medicines or leave the chair."

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday sharpened her attack on the Prime Minister over the resurgence of COVID-19, terming it a "Modi-made disaster" and demanded that he quit if unable to provide adequate medical supplies to combat the disease. She alleged that 65 per cent of the drugs manufactured in the country for tackling the pandemic have already been exported. "The COVID-19 pandemic had subsided in the country but has surged in a second wave owing to the monumental failure of the central government and negligence and total incompetence on its part," she said addressing public meetings at Chanchal in Bengal's Malda and at Harirampur in the Dakshin Dinajpur districts. As the Election Commission did not accede to Trinamool Congress' request to hold the last three of the eight-phase election in West Bengal on a single day, Mamata Banerjee said she is forced to combat the sharp rise in infections in the state as its Chief Minister as well campaign for Trinamool Congress, her party.