Former Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh and Congress leader Kamal Nath accused the state government of under-reporting COVID-related deaths and claimed that over one lakh people had died from the infection in March and April across the state.
Speaking to media in Ujjain on Saturday, the former CM said, "I have calculated myself, information of 26 districts were on newspaper and I gathered information from rest of the districts. In March and April, 1,27,000 bodies reached crematoriums. According to me, 80 per cent of them were of COVID victims."
According to the official data, the death toll due to COVID-19 stands at 7,394.
"The present government's approach of suppressing and hiding the COVID-related facts and figures will not address the problem but worsen it. The government is not fighting with COVID, but with criticism. Some journalists are also booked. They are busy in image management, not COVID management," the former CM alleged.