endIndex: Covid-19 coronavirus patients rest inside a banquet hall temporarily converted into a Covid-19 coronavirus ward in New Delhi on April 29, 2021.
(CNN) Responsibility for the devastating second wave of Covid-19 now sweeping India belongs first and foremost to the government, according to Narendra Taneja, a spokesman for the ruling BJP party. We are in power, we are the government in India so of course responsibility is first and foremost ours, good or bad, whatever it is. It is our responsibility and we re trying our very level best, Taneja told CNN s Christiane Amanpour on Thursday.
However, he also argued that the current crisis could not have been foreseen. A lot of people are saying that. we knew in February. At that time, scientists and doctors were more or less of the same view, he said.
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