India going to pay heavy price for govt's inept COVID handling: Rahul

Taking dig at the ruling BJP government, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said the country will have to pay a heavy price for the government’s inability to act decisively on curbing coronavirus, on Wednesday (March 18).

Taking to Twitter, he said, “Quick aggressive action is the answer to tackling the #Coronavirus . India is going to pay an extremely heavy price for our governments inability to act decisively.

Quick aggressive action is the answer to tackling the #Coronavirus . India is going to pay an extremely heavy price for our governments inability to act decisively.

— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) March 18, 2020

Rahul Gandhi has been critical of the Narendra Modi-led central government in tackling the coronavirus outbreak in the country.

Earlier, on Tuesday, he said the government has been fooling about not knowing what they have to do to fight not just coronavirus but the economic distress it’ll bring.

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“The Indian economy is going to be devastated. You have no idea the painful thing the country has suffered and it is coming. It is like a tsunami is coming,” Rahul Gandhi told the reporters.

According to health officials, the total number of novel coronavirus cases in the country rose to 147 with 10 fresh cases reported from various parts of the country.

The cases include 25 foreign nationals and the three persons who died in Delhi, Karnataka and Maharashtra, officials.