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Congressman Rahul Gandhi said Friday that the government needs to inform people of its strategy to open up the country and the economy after the Covid-19 shutdown ends on May 17.
“The government now has to give a little transparency in its actions. We need to understand, when they open, what is the criteria for that, what are the boxes they want to check before they really start to open, ”Gandhi said at a digital press conference.
“Blocking is not a key, you turn it on and it goes away. It requires several things to happen. It requires a psychological change. The government needs to understand that it is not an on-off switch,” he added.
The former president of Congress also spoke about Covid-19 coronavirus disease, which has triggered the national blockade. He said that except for some categories of people, the disease is not dangerous.
“The disease is dangerous for some categories of people. It is dangerous for the elderly, for those who have diabetes, hypertension, etc. But other than that, it is not a dangerous disease. So we have to make a psychological change in people’s minds. Currently, people are very scared. The government, if it wants to open up, will have to turn this fear into a feeling of trust, “Gandhi said.
He added that the opening has to be a transition. “You need to have a strategy.”
Gandhi has had conversations with public intellectuals through videoconferences in which he has been talking about Covid-19 and what India needs to do in the future. Former RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan and Nobel Prize winner Abhijit Banerjee were his first two guests.
Two days ago, the president of Congress, Sonia Gandhi, had asked the central government to explain its strategy if it will lift or continue with the national blockade on May 17.
“What happens after May 17? What criteria is the government using to judge how long the blockade will continue? she had said in her opening remarks in a video conference of the party’s top ministers and senior leaders.
Addressing the meeting, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said: “We need to know, as Soniaji said, what will happen after the 3.0 shutdown? Soniaji has already pointed this out. CM’s need to deliberate and ask what is the Indian government’s strategy to get the country out of the blockade. “
The party had recently announced that it will pay for the train journey of the stranded migrant workers, a move that sparked a fight between Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The opposition party accused the government of being insensitive to the plight of stranded migrant workers, while the BJP claimed that the railways were paying 85% of the cost of the fee, and state governments had to pay 15% , which allowed migrants to return to their homes at no cost. .
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