Uttar Pradesh BJP lawmakers write to Adityanath on oxygen shortage
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Linking the rise in cases with panchayat polls, MLAs call for deferring counting
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Women wait in a queue to cast their vote for the Pachayat Election at a polling station in Ranapur village in Uttar Pradesh. | Photo Credit:
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Linking the rise in cases with panchayat polls, MLAs call for deferring counting
As the virulent second wave of COVID-19 cuts awidening swathe across Uttar Pradesh, not just Opposition leaders but lawmakers of the ruling party BJP are also flagging the shortage in oxygen supplies and the rise in cases due to the panchayat polls in the State. A number of legislators from the party have written to local officials and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath raising concerns about COVID-19 facilities in their constituencies.
135 teachers on panchayat poll duty in UP died of pandemic: Rashtriya Shaikshik Mahasangh
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On compensation, Dwivedi said that the decision will be taken by the chief minister and it will be for all government employees. “Not only teachers, but employees from government departments, Aanganwadi workers, they all were involved in election duty,” Dwivedi said.
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The state government, however, expressed ignorance about the casualty figure. “We have no official information on this,” basic education minister Satish Dwivedi told ET.
A total of 135 ‘shiksha mitra’ and education instructors died of Covid-19 while on panchayat election duty in UP, the Rashtriya Shaikshik Mahasangh, an RSS affiliate, said in a letter to UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath. The last phase of polling is on Thursday.