Prime Minister Modi should be held responsible for Covid deaths in India

Prof. Indrajit S. Saluja

The world is worried as reports from India about thousands dying every day for want of medical care pour in. While nations, organizations and individuals have come forward to reach to the suffering people of India the much-needed oxygen, medicines and food, the Modi government seems to be clueless as to how to control an unhinged pandemic ravaging the nation from shore to shore.

India alone has not faced the onslaught of Covid-19. The pandemic ravaged almost every part of the world. And governments all across the world, with a few exceptions though, swung into action to save lives of their people. No doubt, some prosperous nations, including America, with all medical facilities and the will to combat the pandemic, lost more lives than has India, but there was a tangible, massive effort to pin down the devil.

Not so in India. The Modi government remained indifferent as the number of cases begin to rise. Instead of putting their heart and soul into chalking out a strategy to minimize the harm from Covid-19, Modi government was more involved in making and implementing a strategy to win Assembly elections, particularly in West Bengal where for over 6 months, from November 2020 to April 2021, the top cabinet ministers, including the Home Minister and Prime Minister himself, campaigned ferociously to dislodge Mamata Banerji.  The capital of India, Delhi, was one of the worst sufferers, as were other parts of the country, with people dying by scores every hour in the absence of medical care. And imagine, people dying because they cannot breathe. They cannot breathe and there is no oxygen in hospitals.  They die in streets, in cars, in front of the hospitals because there are no beds available in hospitals.

What a shame for a country touting itself as “Vishwa Guru”, claiming to becoming one of the three largest economies in the world in a couple of years!

The way people are dying a painful death for want of Oxygen is a reminder of those who were made to die in gas chambers in Hitler’s Germany.  Long after the genocide, the perpetrators were brought to book in a trial, now known as Nuremberg trial.

The dire situation we see in India today has a parallel in those killed in gas chambers. The willful negligence on the part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has caused deaths. Mr. Modi has blood on his hands. He should be held responsible for Covid deaths and tried in a Nuremberg type trial for the heinous crime against Indians.

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