{"id":128902,"date":"2021-05-04T12:48:15","date_gmt":"2021-05-04T07:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=128902"},"modified":"2021-05-04T13:30:43","modified_gmt":"2021-05-04T08:00:43","slug":"rahul-gandhi-lockdown-only-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/india-news\/rahul-gandhi-lockdown-only-option\/","title":{"rendered":"Rahul Gandhi says lockdown only option to curb Covid-19 spread, accuses government of killing innocents by inaction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Former Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said the steps taken by the central government till now will not be able to curb rapidly spreading Covid-19 infection in India. He also accused the government of killing people through its inaction. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gandhi tweeted that the only way to stop the spread of Corona now is a full lockdown &#8211; with the protection of NYAY for the vulnerable sections. He also said the GOI (Government of India) doesn&#8217;t get it. Gandhi also said the government&#8217;s inaction is killing many innocent people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In another tweet, Gandhi said he just wants to make it clear that a lockdown is now the only option because of a complete lack of strategy by the government. They allowed, rather, they actively helped the virus reach this stage where there\u2019s no other way to stop it. A crime has been committed against India, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">GOI doesn\u2019t get it. <br><br>The only way to stop the spread of Corona now is a full lockdown- with the protection of NYAY for the vulnerable sections. <br><br>GOI\u2019s inaction is killing many innocent people.<\/p>&mdash; Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RahulGandhi\/status\/1389438109176274944?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 4, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Wayanad MP mentioned his party&#8217;s NYAY or&nbsp;<em>Nyuntam Aay Yojana<\/em>&nbsp;(Minimum Income Scheme) that it had proposed in its 2019 general election manifesto, promising families in the bottom 20 per cent of the economic strata a minimum of Rs 72,000 a year as guaranteed income. He said NYAY scheme can help with protection of the vulnerable sections of the society. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He had promised poll-bound Kerala that the scheme would be tested in the state if the party-led alliance was voted to power in the Assembly election held last month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, the BJP was quick to hit back at Gandhi for his tweet today, accusing him of playing cheap politics over the pandemic. The saffron party&#8217;s National in-charge of Information &amp; Technology said the only person who doesn&#8217;t get it is &#8211; Rahul Gandhi. Using the pandemic for cheap political thrills is a new low even by Rahul Gandhi&#8217;s otherwise low standards. He also cited Gandhi&#8217;s earlier stand against a lockdown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read Also: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/adar-poonawallas-serum-institute-invest-240-million-pounds-uk\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/adar-poonawallas-serum-institute-invest-240-million-pounds-uk\/\">Adar Poonawalla\u2019s Serum Institute to invest 240 mn pounds in UK to set up vaccine plan<\/a>t <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>India has reported more than 3.57 lakh fresh Covid-19 cases along with 567 deaths in the last 24 hours. The country&#8217;s caseload has by now crossed over two crores and fatalities stand at nearly 3,500. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gandhi said he just wants to make it clear that a lockdown is now the only option because of a complete lack of strategy by the government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":128921,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1497],"tags":[92143,83498,110],"yst_prominent_words":[90276,3814,3885,74353,3704,6083,83493,49683,71236,5964,4051,12950,5956,5951,21195,13173,34120,24486],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2021\/05\/04124709\/Rahul.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128902"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128902"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=128902"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=128902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->