New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking his urgent intervention in Lakshwadeep. He demanded that “anti people policies” being announced by the Lakshwadeep administrator, Praful Khoda Patel, be withdrawn. Mr Gandhi also claimed that the dilution in quarantine rules by Mr Patel in Lakshadweep has led to a “lethal spike in Covid cases”.
Mr Patel, a former MLA of Gujarat who served as a minister of state for home under Narendra Modi’s chief ministership in Gujarat, was made administrator of the country’s smallest Union Territory in December 2020 after the death of Dineshwar Sharma, the then administrator of the island. He is being blamed for the Covid-19 surge in Lakshadweep and is accused of creating social tension in Lakshadweep where Muslims form nearly 97 per cent of the population and most are Scheduled Tribes.
Mr Gandhi, in his letter to the Prime Minister, has said that the “administration demolished…