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Re: Indian Prime Minister Called Out for Building New, Billion-Dollar Residence Despite Deadly COVID Shortages

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It gives people jobs. So that's a plus.

But unconnected to that, sounds like he thought India was not susceptible. Bad guess.

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Indian Prime Minister Called Out for Building New, Billion-Dollar Residence Despite Deadly COVID Shortages
By: clo2 in ALEA
Tue, 04 May 21 4:39 PM 		Msg. 41968 of 54458

He seems as cold hearted as Trump.

Indian Prime Minister Called Out for Building New, Billion-Dollar Residence Despite Deadly COVID Shortages

Opposition leader Priyanka Gandhi accused Narendra Modi of continuing work on his lavish vanity project while the country spirals deeper into chaos.

With India running out of essential supplies to treat millions of current COVID-19 cases, the main opposition leader called out Prime Minister Narendra Modi for continuing to invest in a $1.7 billion government complex and private palace, which is still being constructed by thousands of laborers in central New Delhi as the pandemic rages around them.

On Tuesday, opposition leader Priyanka Gandhi, the daughter of Rajiv and Sonia Gandhi, claimed in a Twitter post that crucial funds are being “diverted for the construction of a new house for the prime minister.”

“When the people of the country are struggling with shortage of oxygen, vaccines, hospital beds, medicines, then it would be better if the government put all the resources in the work of saving the lives of the people, instead of constructing a new house of 13,000 crores,” she said.

The massive spread is called the Central Vista Revamp project—scheduled to be completed in December 2022—and work is continuing despite calls for a national lockdown as the coronavirus crisis worsens.

Modi hopes the palatial enclave in downtown Delhi will be a lasting testament his administration. The campus, which is the size of 50 football fields, will include a new parliament, 10 buildings dedicated to government offices and conference space, 10 buildings for the prime minister’s private residence, and a further 29 buildings for the vice president’s special digs, according to the Indian Express. The complex also includes nine sewage treatment centers and the removal and transplantation of several thousand trees.

Earlier this week, Modi deemed the construction on the site in the heart of New Delhi as an essential service so the nearly 6,000 workers can skirt lockdown rules, despite a 30 percent test-positivity rate in the congested city.

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http://www.thedailybeast.com/india-prime-minister-modi-called-out-for-building-new-billion-dollar-residence-despite-deadly-covid-shortages?via=newsletter&source=DDMorning

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