By PTI Apr 29, 2021 1:45:22 PM IST (Published)
Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray has asked the Centre to declare the COVID19 pandemic as a "national calamity", Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut said on Thursday. Talking to reporters here,Raut also said the "Maharashtra model" of COVID19 management should be implemented in other parts of the country.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray has asked the Centre to declare the COVID-19 pandemic as a ”national calamity”, Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut said on Thursday. Talking to reporters here, Raut also said the ”Maharashtra model” of COVID-19 management should be implemented in other parts of the country. He, however, did not elaborate on the model.
Raut said Thackeray, during meetings of chief ministers with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and through letters to the Centre, had asked to declare the COVID-19 crisis as a ”national calamity”.
”Thackeray has been saying this for a month now and it is good that even the Supreme Court has taken note of it,” the Rajya Sabha member said. The SC on Tuesday termed the massive resurgence of COVID-19 cases a ”national crisis” and said it cannot remain a mute spectator at such a time.