No other leader is as angry as Mamta. change the degree
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Minister Partha Chatterjee says West Bengal govt made mistakes in handling the crisis, but assures public that things are being sorted out.
Kolkata: On Monday, the West Bengal government led by Mamata Banerjee admitted that the total number of Covid-19-related deaths in the state was 133, after adding 72 deaths previously attributed to co-morbid conditions.
After almost a month-and-a-half, the Bengal government’s figures matched those released by the central government, with the number of confirmed coronavirus-positive cases going up to 1,259. This gave the Trinamool Congress-ruled West Bengal the worst Covid-mortality rate of any state in India at 10.5 per cent, ahead of the BJP-ruled Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat.
But why did Mamata Banerjee’s government suddenly make a U-turn on its previously stated figures? Trinamool insiders and political analysts told ThePrint that the reason was a tremendous groundswell against the chief minister and her party due to their “mishandling” of the crisis, which had lost whatever ground they had managed to gain with the agitations against the Citizenship Amendment Act and the proposed National Register of Citizens in December and January.
Senior minister Partha Chatterjee, who is co-chair of the Bengal government’s cabinet committee for better management of the Covid-19 crisis, admitted the government’s mistakes.
“Let us now call a spade a spade. We need to discuss what went so wrong,” Chatterjee told ThePrint.
Also read: More testing, daily detailed updates — Mamata’s Covid strategy sees major turnaround
Charges against the govt
The West Bengal government has faced charges of data mismanagement, questionable moves in dealing with Covid-related deaths, disposal of bodies, changing rules repeatedly in terms of testing samples, allegations of looting food and rations meant for the poor, and the repeated restructuring of the Public Distribution System.