Senior Congress leader Sanjay Nirupam has on Tuesday slammed Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray over the rising COVID-19 cases in the state.
Taking to Twitter, Nirupam said in Hindi, "The Chief Minister keeps speaking to the public. If he could have similar consultations regularly with his alliance partners then he would not have to do 60 flip-flops in 60 days."
Nirupam added, "He keeps changing his decisions everyday, decisions that are delayed and often are going wrong. The result, the COVID-19 crisis is increasing."
Earlier in the day, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi created a controversy by saying that Congress- one of the three parties of the Maha Vikas Aghadi- is only supporting the government in Maharashtra and isn't a key decision-maker.
Gandhi said, "I would like to make a differentiation here. We are supporting the government in Maharashtra, but we are not the key decision maker in Maharashtra. We are decision-makers in Punjab, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Puducherry. There is a difference between running the government and supporting it."
"I said very categorically that Maharashtra is an important state, Mumbai is the financial capital and there is a lot of attention, they have a difficult situation and lots of attention needs to be given to the state by the centre," he added.
Meanwhile, NCP leader Nawab Malik slammed those trying to 'distort' Rahul Gandhi's statement. Malik took to Twitter and said, "Mr. @RahulGandhi is right when he said, Maharashtra does not have a Congress Government, he said so because Maharashtra has the Maha Vikas Aghadi Government." "Those trying to distort his statement must stop, the 3 parties are happy together and serving the people of Maharashtra," he added.
