Don”t decide zones in PMO, give power to states: Rahul Gandhi

TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi and said that decision to categorise zones on the basis of the COVID-19 situation should be left to the states and districts and should not be made in a centralised manner .

While addressing his second press conference during the lockdown period, he said that the best people to decide on the issue were the states themselves as they know the supply chains better. “Today the situation is not normal. There is not going to be a general solution in this. If we decentralise and take this fight to the district level, a solution can be found. If we keep this fight till the PMO, then there is a possibility of losing.”

“I request the government that they view state governments and the district magistrates as partners and that they do not centralise the decision making. “The Prime Minister has his own style, but in my view, in such a situation a strong Prime Minister along with a lot of strong Chief Ministers and a lot of strong collectors are needed. I want us to tackle the disease at the local level itself.