{"id":322529,"date":"2020-04-23T06:22:09","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T06:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=322529"},"modified":"2020-04-23T06:22:09","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T06:22:09","slug":"suggestions-to-government-on-covid-19-acted-upon-partially-and-in-miserly-way-sonia-gandhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/suggestions-to-government-on-covid-19-acted-upon-partially-and-in-miserly-way-sonia-gandhi\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Suggestions to government on COVID-19 acted upon partially and in miserly way\u2019: Sonia Gandhi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-305863 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/soniaa.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/soniaa.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/soniaa-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/soniaa-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/soniaa-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/soniaa-631x420.jpg 631w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>&#8220;COVID-19 has increased disturbingly both in spread and speed in the past three weeks but suggestions to the government have been acted on only partially and in a miserly way&#8221;, Congress president Sonia Gandhi said on Thursday at a meeting of party\u2019s highest decision-making body, the Congress Working Committee (CWC).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cUnfortunately, they have been acted upon only partially and in a miserly way. The compassion, large-heartedness and alacrity from the Central Government is conspicuous by its absence,\u201d said Sonia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cWe have repeatedly urged the Prime Minister that there is no alternative to Testing, Trace and Quarantine. Unfortunately, testing still remains low and testing kits are still in short supply and of poor quality. PPE kits number and quality is poor,\u201d she added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;12 crore jobs have been lost in the first phase of the lockdown. Unemployment is likely to increase further as economic activity remains at a standstill. It is imperative to provide at least Rs.7,500 to each family to tide over this crisis,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sonia pointed to difficulties faced by migrant workers and farmers and praised Indians leading the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic in spite of the absence of adequate personal protection equipment.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;COVID-19 has increased disturbingly both in spread and speed in the past three weeks but suggestions to the government have been acted on only partially and in a miserly way&#8221;, Congress president Sonia Gandhi said on Thursday at a meeting of party\u2019s highest decision-making body, the Congress Working Committee (CWC). \u201cUnfortunately, they have been acted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":305863,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[1701],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322529"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322529"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322531,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322529\/revisions\/322531"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/305863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}