People Lost Loved Ones Over Lack Of Oxygen, Don’t Call Them Liars: Arvind Kejriwal

New Delhi: Responding to a Supreme Court panel’s interim report that the Delhi government exaggerated the city’s oxygen requirement by four times during the second COVID-19 wave, CM Arvind Kejriwal said on Friday that those who lost their loved ones due to a shortage of medical oxygen in the Capital “should not be called liars.”

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Kejriwal posted this on Twitter in an apparent response to a report that his government “exaggerated” the city’s oxygen needs by four times during the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic.

“My crime is that I fought for the breath of the 20 million people of Delhi,” a rough translation of Kejriwal’s tweet posted in Hindi, read.

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“When you were addressing election rallies, I was awake all night arranging for oxygen. I fought and pleaded to arrange oxygen for people,” he added, referring to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s election rallies in West Bengal during the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic, which triggered fierce criticism.

People have lost their loved ones due to a shortage of oxygen. Please don’t call them liars. They’re feeling very bad,” Kejriwal’s tweet read further.

https://twitter.com/ArvindKejriwal/status/1408355686535208963?s=20

The report, which was submitted to the Supreme Court, was prepared by a panel constituted by it in May when the capital was facing a severe shortage of liquid medical oxygen. Although preliminary for now, this has triggered a war of words between the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

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