/PRNewswire/ India is currently going through the worst phase of the pandemic. With close to 300,000 new cases and 4,000 deaths per day, India s healthcare.
Octogenarian Volunteer Of RSS Dies Of Covid-19 After Giving Up Hospital Bed To Save A Young Man
RSS volunteers during Pad Sanchalan. (Adarsh Gupta/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)
Narayan Dabhadkar, a 85 year old Rashtriya SwayamSevak Sangh (RSS) member from Nagpur, gave up his hospital bed for another young patient. Narayan died three days later, battling Covid-19 according to a
The incident was narrated by an RSS sevika, Shivani Wakhare, on Facebook.
The Facebook post in Marathi reads, Narayan Dabhadkar, an RSS worker who spent his entire life serving the society, contracted Covid-19 amid the second wave of the pandemic. As his SPO2 levels dropped to 60, his daughter frantically tried to get him a hospital bed in the city.
âEmergency Was a Mistake,â Says Rahul Gandhi
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said the Emergency was wrong , but it was fundamentally different from the current scenario as the Congress did not attempt to capture the country s institutional framework.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi. Photo: PTI
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New Delhi: Terming the Emergency that was imposed by former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi a “mistake”, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said what happened during that period was “wrong”, but it was fundamentally different from the current scenario as the Congress at no point attempted to capture the country’s institutional framework.
In a conversation with Kaushik Basu, professor at Cornell University in the US and India’s former chief economic advisor, Gandhi said he is all for internal democracy in the Congress, which fought for India’s independence, gave the country its Constitution and stood for equality.
by M R Subramani - Jan 19, 2021 11:46 AM
M K Stalin and Sridhar Vembu.
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That the DMK has not chosen to comment or distance itself from this episode only strengthens the suspicion that it perhaps backs such tactics.
With Tamil Nadu Assembly elections around the corner, a desperate Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) is making all efforts to regain power after 2011.
Supporters of the Dravidian ideology have thrown their weight behind the party and are employing some below-the-belt tactics.
These tactics have now led to one of Indiaâs promising and leading information technology firm Zoho Corpâs owner Sridhar Vembu being attacked by a Twitter user, who reportedly owes allegiance to the DMK and claims to be an ardent follower of the late M Karunanidhi.