Prime Minister Narendra Modi completes seven years in the top job of the country this week amidst what he himself has termed a “once in a century pandemic”. In the midst of the deadly second wave of COVID-19, his party, the BJP, despite investing much political capital in the West Bengal Assembly polls, lost to the Trinamool Congress. This, many have conflated, was a comment on the handling of the pandemic in its second avatar, especially in the later phases of polling. This is where the future of the national BJP government resides, at least in the immediate future,” he stated. Now, to live, to access health care is more important than a road or a flyover, people are looking at healthcare in situ, rather than other things,” he pointed out.

Source: The Hindu May 26, 2021 15:13 UTC