Coronavirus cases: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi all set to release white paper on COVID-19 today
New Delhi, June 22: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will on Tuesday release a white paper on the novel coronavirus at 11am. This comes a day after Gandhi termed the Centre's decision of not paying an ex-gratia to kin of those who died of COVID-19 as "cruelty" and said that the compensation is just a small help for the people and the Modi government is unwilling to do that.
In a teet, Rahul Gandhi said, "It is impossible to evaluate life. The government's compensation is only a small help, but the Modi government is not ready to even do that. First the lack of treatment during the Covid-19 pandemic and then the false figures and on top of that the government's cruelty."
India reports 42,640 new COVID-19 cases, 1,167 deaths in last 24 hours
Earlier, Rahul Gandhi had alleged that the "positivity" claims of the government in regard to number of COVID-19 cases are a PR stunt to hide the actual number of coronavirus deaths.
"Priority of the central government -- social media, false image. Priority of the public -- record-breaking inflation, coronavirus vaccine. What type of 'achhe din' are these," Rahul Gandhi had asked in a tweet in Hindi.
"'Positivity' is a PR stunt to hide the actual number of coronavirus deaths the PM's actions have caused," he added.
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The Congress had earlier accused the Centre of suppressing COVID-19 death numbers, with Gandhi saying that the numbers do not lie but the government does.
"Numbers don't lie... GOI (Government of India) does," Gandhi had said on Twitter while citing a New York Times's estimate of the number of coronavirus deaths in India.