'Politics On Corpses': Health Minister Reacts To Congress Leader Rahul Gandhi's Tweet Over Covid Count In India

Many Congress members have questions how the Centre is handling the Covid crisis in India, especially after there was steep rise in Covid deaths during the second wave.

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New Delhi: Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan responded to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi tweet over Covid death on Wednesday. These tweet come after foreign and Indian media questioned the official figures of 3.11 lakhs.

Congress has chimed in repeatedly accused the Centre of under-reporting Covid deaths.

"Politics on corpses, INCIndia Style! Although vultures are disappearing from trees, it seems their spirit has been absorbed by vultures of the earth.@RahulGandhi ji trusts #NewYork more than #Delhi. One should learn to play politics on corpses from the vultures of the earth," the Health Minister's tweeted in Hindi along with Rahul Gandhi's post.

Numbers don’t lie... GOI does. pic.twitter.com/5YLSnaeKzK

— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) May 26, 2021

Many Congress members have questions how the Centre is handing the Covid crisis in India, especially after there was steep rise in Covid deaths during the second wave.

At a press conference earlier this month, party leader P Chidambaram said, "We have a strong suspicion that the Government of India, in conjunction with some state governments, is suppressing the true numbers of new infections and COVID-related deaths".

"If our suspicions are true, this is a grave misdeed apart from being a national shame and a national tragedy," he was quoted by PTI.

Earlier too Rahul Gandhi had tweeted targeting the government.

"Countless dead bodies flowing in rivers; lines in hospitals up to miles; the right to life security is taken away! PM, take off those pink goggles that lets you see nothing except for Central Vista," he tweeted in Hind.

In the last few weeks, there have been reports of bodies floating in the river Ganga, over worked crematoriums being flooded with dead bodies flooded. Recently, several dead bodies are found buried on the banks of river Ganga in several districts of Uttar Pradesh while several of them were also seen floating in the river.