If Covid-19 tested and tried the patience of people faced with a menace to life that is both frightening and invisible, the pandemic has thrown newer challenges to ruling dispensations across the world and inarguably the virus had been the biggest test of political leadership the world has ever witnessed in recent times. Political leaders across the world reacted differently and every leader will be judged by the results.
Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy briefings are a circus-like spectacle from his statements early on that paracetamol and bleaching powder can keep corona at bay. It had once stated that the virus is just like common cold and fever that “comes and goes”. As the positive cases surged, the CM stated that it “comes but does not go”.
Jagan on Wednesday dropped a bombshell on five crore people of Andhra Pradesh saying no one will be spared by Covid-19. “Every single person can contract the infection. No one can stop the spread of the virus. We have to live with it,” Jagan said. Jagan’s latest remarks add to the lengthening charge list of failures in both planning for a pandemic and executing an adequate response when it broke out. The public confidence in the government could further erode with such statements coming at a time when the onus of infusing confidence lies largely on the political dispensations.
Further, Jagan also admitted that containing the virus is near impossible with free movement across inter-state borders. “We have Telangana on the one side where cases are on the surge, we have Tamil Nadu on one side, Orissa on one side and Maharashtra on the other. There is free movement of people from across these borders. Therefore, it is impossible to contain the spread of virus from the border states,” he pointed out, clearly blaming the neighbouring states for the spread of virus in Andhra Pradesh and not admitting his own administration for its failure to properly and effectively combat the pandemic.
His remarks come in the wake of a new record high of 2,432 fresh cases of coronavirus were reported in Andhra Pradesh on Thursday as the state’s aggregate shot past the 35,000 mark while 44 deaths took the overall toll in the state to 452.
With the alarming rise in the Covid-19 cases, the CM stated that nothing can be done to contain the virus. “The only way is by scaling up awareness among people on COVID-19. People should take all precautionary measures. Those who contract the virus will have to take medicines,” Jagan stated. However, there are currently no proven medicines to treat Covid-19 patients.
అవునా జగ్లక్. No one will be spared by corona. ? So will you die with it ! Let us see in future. Looks like you will be affected by it like mukkodu.
being CM of a state, should take utmost care in statements, should ask population to be sensitive, careful & serious towards the contagion, it’s not correct to say that every single one may be contacted with… unfortunate
I pity you guys who are making mockery of his statements. He is saying truth. What’s wrong in the statement ? Even WHO said there is high chances of Virus passing through breathing air. If that is the case then whatever you do no matter how much Saftey precautions you take you end up with Virus. Most important thing is if you got the Virus you need to know what to do to make sure its not going to lead to the death and thats what Jagan was trying to say.
We pity Jagan. We pity jagan for his ignorance. We pity jagan for not knowing that the virus originated from China and not South Korea. We pity jagan for not knowing that paracetamol or bleaching powder cannot keep corona away. We pity jagan for not showing political maturity. We pity jagan for not infusing confidence and courage to his people. We pity jagan for his defiant feudal approach. We pity jagan for losing court battles. We pity jagan for his lack of leadership skills. We pity jagan for dishounouring courts over the party colors issue. We pity jagan for painting his face black. We pity jagan for his autocratic ways in removing ramesh kumar and get a hard kick on his backyard. We pity jagan for not carrying any good traits of his father ysr whom I respect. We pity jagan for not being a peoples leader as his father was. We pity you for not seeing this