As the country continues to record the highest one-day spike in COVID-19 cases since the pandemic began, Prime Minister Narendra Modi while addressing a rally in West Bengal’s Asansol on 17 April said that he was elated to see a large gathering at the public meeting.
“Today, in all directions, I have seen such a rally for the first time...today you have shown such a force, such power...wherever I see, I just see people,” he said.
This comes at a time when families and distressed relatives of people suffering from COVID-19 struggle to search for hospital beds, oxygen cylinders, medicines, among other necessities.