Rahul Gandhi Says 'Covid-19 Will Be Case Study Of Failure In Harvard'; JP Nadda Hits Back

India now places third among countries worst hit by coronavirus with more than 6.9 lakh cases overtaking Russia which has 6.8 lakh cases.

New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has slammed the central government once again for the rising number in coronavirus cases and has alleged that the BJP govt has not been able to handle the situation well. Taking a jibe at the government Rahul Gandhi took to Twitter and said that the government's handling of the Covid-19 crisis would figure in the future case studies of Harvard Business School. ALSO READ|Coronavirus In India: Over 24K New Cases For Second Straight Day; India Now Third Worst-Hit Country In The World the Congress leader also tweeted a clip which included segments from the PM's addresses to the nation on the Covid-19 pandemic, including his comments that the Mahabharata war was won in 18 days and the war against coronavirus would take 21 days. Besides this, the clip had a graph depicting the rising coronavirus cases, making India the third worst-affected country in terms of the case count. "Future HBS case studies on failure: 1. Covid19. 2. Demonetisation.3. GST implementation," Gandhi tweeted along with the clip.

Future HBS case studies on failure: 1. Covid19. 2. Demonetisation. 3. GST implementation. pic.twitter.com/fkzJ3BlLH4

— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) July 6, 2020

Rahul's attack came after India surpassed Russia to become the third worst-hit nations by Covid-19 in the world. India's total COVID-19 tally now stands at 6,97,413, while Russia now at fourth place has 681,251. India is now preceded only by Brazil and then the US, which has over 15 lakh and 28 lakh cases right now. BJP President JP Nadda hit back at Rahul Gandhi and said that the opposition leader is just demoralising the citizens of the country and is doing nothing what an opposition leader should do.

Rahul Gandhi does not attend a single meeting of Standing Committee on Defence. But sadly, he continues to demoralise the nation, question the valour of our armed forces and do everything that a responsible opposition leader should not do.

— Jagat Prakash Nadda (@JPNadda) July 6, 2020

Further hitting out at the Congress party, Nadda said: "Rahul Gandhi belongs to that glorious dynastic tradition where as far as defence is concerned, committees don’t matter, only commissions do. Congress has many deserving members who understand parliamentary matters but one dynasty will never let such leaders grow. Really sad." On Sunday, Gandhi had also said that the government was "wasting" the lockdown by not ramping up health infrastructure and procuring "substandard" ventilators that are vital for critical COVID-19 patients. Gandhi had also alleged "opacity" in the PM Cares Fund is putting lives of Indians at risk. Using the hashtag "BJPfailsCoronaFight", Gandhi tweeted, "PMCares opacity is: 1. Putting Indian lives at risk. 2. Ensuring public money is used to buy sub-standard products." (With agency inputs)