In the middle of the ongoing controversy over the global health body WHO’s report on India’s Covid-19 death toll, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi took to Twitter on Friday and accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of “lying”. He also urged the BJP-led central government to support the kin of those who succumbed to the deadly virus by ₹4 lakh ex gratia.
Sharing a report by the World Health Organization that says ‘India has reported the highest number of Covid deaths,’ he tweeted: “47 lakh Indians died due to the Covid pandemic. NOT 4.8 lakh as claimed by the Govt. Science doesn’t LIE. Modi does. Respect families who’ve lost loved ones. Support them with the mandated ₹4 lakh compensation.”
