COVID can't harm MP where CM is 'Shiv', party chief is 'Vishnu': BJP chief

Chugh was in Bhopal to attend launch of Rashtriya Swasthya Swayamsevak Abhiyan

ITDC INDIA EPRESS/ITDC NEWS R BJP national general secretary Tarun Chugh has said the coronavirus cannot harm Madhya Pradesh where the chief minister is 'Shiv' and the state party unit chief is 'Vishnu'.

 Currently, Shivraj Singh Chouhan is the chief minister of Madhya Pradesh, while Vishnu Dutt Sharma is the state BJP president. The Congress claimed BJP leaders were only engaged in seeking applause from their party workers by making such statements, despite "3.28 lakh deaths from January to May this year" in the state, which the opposition party said was much higher than the normal fatality rate in the state

In a twet on Sunday, Chugh said, "How can corona harm Madhya Pradesh where state president is Vishnu and chief minister is Shiv." He was at the state BJP office in Bhopal to participate in the launch of the Rashtriya Swasthya Swayamsevak Abhiyan, a programme to provide health care training to BJP workers, so that they can volunteer during the pandemic and other health-related crises.

Chugh also said that 135 crore doses of COVID-19 vaccines will reach health centres in the country by December this year. Meanwhile, state Congress spokesman Bhupendra Gupta hit out at the BJP, saying its leaders speak like this only to seek applause from their party workers. Gupta claimed "3.28 lakh people died in Madhya Pradesh between January and May this year, which was 54 per cent higher than the normal death rate". He further claimed that the BJP state president himself admitted that 3,500 people from the families belonging to BJP workers and leaders had died due to COVID-19.