PM Modi's 'fixation' with Namaste Trump event led to Covid spread, says NCP's Nawab Malik
India Today
Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik has hit back at PM Modi, claiming that his fixation with the 'Namaste Trump' event was responsible for the coronavirus spread in the country.
A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi accused the opposition of scaring migrant workers into fleeing to their native states from Mumbai during the Covid-19 pandemic, Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik on Tuesday hit back claiming the PM's fixation with the 'Namaste Trump' event was responsible for the coronavirus spread in the country.
In February 2020, the then US President Donald Trump had visited India and also addressed a public gathering at a stadium in Ahmedabad as part of the 'Namaste Trump' event.
Modi said in the Lok Sabha on Monday that the Congress "crossed all limits" during the Covid-19 pandemic, and accused the party of instigating and scaring innocent labourers into fleeing to their native states from Mumbai.
Malik, who is also the NCP's chief spokesperson, on Tuesday said, “When the Maharashtra government was asking for a ban on international flights, your (PM Modi's) own health minister (Dr Harsh Vardhan at that time) was stressing that the coronavirus infection will not spread."
"Modi, in his fixation with the 'Namaste Trump' event, invited people from across the globe to India and it spread the coronavirus infection in all parts of the country,” he claimed.
“Prime Minister Modi is responsible for the spread of the coronavirus in the country,” Malik alleged.
The Congress currently shares power with the Shiv Sena and NCP in Maharashtra.
