{"id":323694,"date":"2020-06-04T12:15:15","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T12:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=323694"},"modified":"2020-06-04T12:15:18","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T12:15:18","slug":"quarantine-centres-have-become-torture-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/quarantine-centres-have-become-torture-points\/","title":{"rendered":"Quarantine centres have become \u2018torture points\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/quarantine-centres-have-become-torture-points\/32-2-6\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-323705\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-323705 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/32-2-271x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"271\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/06\/32-2-271x300.jpg 271w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/06\/32-2.jpg 276w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 271px) 100vw, 271px\" \/><\/a>The veteran Congress leader and eminent parliamentarian Pramod Tiwari says that the Congress party always cooperate with ruling party in event of national calamities and disasters. \u201cBut it was the first time when I saw a government fought its Opposition parties more than pandemic of Coronavirus. Coronavirus and mismanagement of centre and state government equally caused damage to society,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">\u201cThe calculations of Prime Minister Narendra Modi bitterly failed due to lack of lockdown planning. Had he taken all the state machinery into confidence and at least one week before the situation could have been much different. The migrant workers, students, farmers would have reached their homes,\u201d he asserted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Tiwari, in an interview with Tehelka, said, \u201cThe timely action on the part of the Union government could have saved the nation. They should have monitored the situation right from is beginning from Wuhan, China. It came through airways. \u201cThe Union government is wholly responsible for community transmission of pandemic because it continued with its plan to held historic civic welcome to US president Donald Trump in Ahmedabad stadium compromising social distancing norms at a historic masses,\u201d he alleged.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Tiwari, who is a leading High Court lawyer, flayed state government for adopting undemocratic <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">tactics with vengeances against Congress as its president was arrested under fabricated charges entailing punishment up to life imprisonment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">He termed the quarantine centres as \u201ctorture points\u201d where the purpose of putting under isolation has completely failed. These centres experience burns of poor financing model enhancing mismanagement and lack of sanitation. The state government gives only \u00a040 a day per person for three meals. \u201cThe irate behaviour of the state due to its failures on many fronts could be seen reflecting in frustration against Congress worker,\u201d Tiwari alleged.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The veteran Congress leader and eminent parliamentarian Pramod Tiwari says that the Congress party always cooperate with ruling party in event of national calamities and disasters. \u201cBut it was the first time when I saw a government fought its Opposition parties more than pandemic of Coronavirus. Coronavirus and mismanagement of centre and state government equally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":323705,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23,2205],"tags":[12470,13077,283],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323694"}],"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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323694"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323707,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323694\/revisions\/323707"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/323705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}