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News Desk: BJP national president JP Nadda, taking note of the observations by the Madras High Court holding the Election Commission “singularly responsible” for the second wave of Covid, said people in “high and respectable” positions should “weigh words before using them”.
Responding to the observations of the Madras HC and Calcutta HC on the poll panel’s role, Nadda said: “We have been strictly adhering to EC directives on maintaining Covid protocol during our campaign. What the Madras HC has said is an observation. I can only say people in high and respectable positions should weigh words before using them.”
Madras HC Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee came down heavily on the poll panel and held that “EC officers should be probably booked for murder”.
The BJP national president said he didn’t want to join the “blame game” along with Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee over the shortage of vaccines, medicines and oxygen availability when Covid numbers were reaching a new high in Bengal every day.
“We are taking a pro-active role. The Bengal CM gave a miss to the meeting the PM had with CMs on March 17 to discuss the requirement of vaccines and also deliberate before rolling out a comprehensive Covid management plan. A year ago, the state government had kept the central team to Bengal in house arrest. They had come to help out the state in tackling the pandemic,” Nadda said at a presser in the city.
