One of the most powerful officials in India, a close associate of the PM modes, test positive for COVID-19

One of the most powerful officials in India, a close associate of the PM modes, test positive for COVID-19

The Interior Minister of India Amit Shah, a close aide of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, to corona discharge than the number of cases in the South Asian nation has increased more than 1.7 million positive. Shah said in a tweet his health was fine, but get on the advice of his doctors at the hospital. He urged the people who came with him these days contact to isolate themselves and get tested. India has the most confirmed cases of the US and Brazil – and add one of the fastest growing epidemics in the world, more than 50,000 cases a day. Shah was present at the Cabinet meeting lead by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday chaired, Hindustan Times, although it was observed strict social distancing measures. “The Shah news is a wake up call for a government often reluctant the extent of spreading pandemic in India confirms,” ​​Michael Kugelman, deputy director and senior associate for South Asia at the Wilson Center in Washington, said. “The takeaway is crystal clear and very sobering :. No, it is not immune to the pinnacle of power at this virus,” Shah, 55, has been for more than three decades Modis frontman. His rise from a minimum of party workers, election posters hanging interior minister – considered second most important task of India – is closely intertwined with the rise of Modi’s up. He is the most senior minister of the challenges governments Modi Government emphasizes the infection and his face shrink illness spreading the virus to contain, while ensuring their online management function. His hospitalization comes days before an event by building a controversial Hindu temple in the northern town of Ayodhya to mark where a mosque 16th century which was destroyed in 1992, and a year after the government has It ended seven decades of independence in Kashmir. The ceremony of a landmark temple to the ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party Program, said Kugelman. “This is important because this agenda is mainly connected to Shah, one of its most acute samples and more emphatic,” said Kugelman. “Modi has tried to remain above the fight and make his deputies leaving messages on the front of Hindu nationalism and this shields it is connected to the ugly rhetoric and often accompanies communal rhetoric.” Epidemic As India is moving outside of the major cities, and further to its vast hinterland of influence, as well as the state government operations. The Prime Minister of the southern state of Karnataka, B.S. Yediyurappa showed on Sunday had Covid-19 and was in the hospital. Banwarilal Purohit, governor of the southern state of Tamil Nadu, is also positive for coronavirus reports CNBC-TV18. The July 25 announced Madhya Pradesh Shivraj Singh Chouhan Prime Minister also had the virus, NDTV said.
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