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Ahmedabad, Sep 20 (PTI) The Congress on Monday alleged 2.81 lakh people have succumbed to COVID-19 infection in Gujarat as against the official figure of 10,081 and blamed negligence and failure of the state government for "massive sufferings" of people.
In just one month of "Nyay Yatra" of Congress, the opposition party has come across 31,850 families who have lost their members to coronavirus, former Union minister and Congress leader Bharatsinh Solanki told media persons.
People suffered massive pains due to the "government-made disaster" during the worst phase of the COVID-19 pandemic that was marked by the lack of proper supply of medical oxygen, hospital beds, dial "108" ambulances, and large-scale black marketing of essential drugs, the Congress said and termed the deaths as "institutional murder.
Referring to sudden resignation of Chief Minister Vijay Rupani last week, Solanki said the BJP was forced to change the guard to deflect the public anger against its "criminal negligence" to handle the COVID-19 pandemic.
"Gujarat Congress launched a state-wide "Nyay Yatra" on August 16, and in four weeks, party leaders met 31,850 families which had lost their members to COVID-19.
This is thrice the official figure of 10,082 deaths (till Sunday)," Solanki said.