{"id":37966,"date":"2021-05-07T14:28:02","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T08:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=37966"},"modified":"2021-05-07T14:28:02","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T08:58:02","slug":"covid-situation-going-from-bad-to-worse-pm-health-min-refuse-to-own-responsibility-chidambaram-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=37966","title":{"rendered":"COVID situation going from bad to worse; PM, health min refuse to own responsibility: Chidambaram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Asserting that the COVID-19 pandemic situation is going from bad to worse, senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Friday alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Health Minister Harsh Vardhan are refusing to own responsibility and are making a \u201cmockery of democratic principles\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>His remarks came after the Union Health Ministry data updated on Friday showed a record 4,14,188 new coronavirus infections being reported in a day in India, raising the country\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s tally to 2,14,91,598. The active cases have crossed the 36-lakh mark.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe pandemic situation is going from bad to worse. The insufficient supply of vaccines is a hard, bitter truth, but the government is in denial,\u201d Chidambaram tweeted.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIn Tamil Nadu, not all among 45 plus are getting the first dose and a small number the second dose. Nobody between 18 and 44 is getting the vaccine,\u201d he claimed.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The situation in other states is not very different, Chidambaram added.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe PM and the Health Minister refuse to own responsibility and are making a mockery of democratic principles,\u201d the former Union minister alleged.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>PTI<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asserting that the COVID-19 pandemic situation is going from bad to worse, senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Friday alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Health Minister Harsh Vardhan are refusing to own responsibility and are making a \u201cmockery of democratic principles\u201d. His remarks came after the Union Health Ministry data updated on Friday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21605,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}