India
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New Delhi, June 22: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will on Tuesday release a white paper on the novel coronavirus at 11am. This comes a day after Gandhi termed the Centre’s decision of not paying an ex-gratia to kin of those who died of COVID-19 as “cruelty” and said that the compensation is just a small help for the people and the Modi government is unwilling to do that.
In a teet, Rahul Gandhi said, “It is impossible to evaluate life. The government’s compensation is only a small help, but the Modi government is not ready to even do that. First the lack of treatment during the Covid-19 pandemic and then the false figures and on top of that the government’s cruelty.”
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Earlier, Rahul Gandhi had alleged that the “positivity” claims of the government in regard to number of COVID-19 cases are a PR…
