'Tsunami is coming’: Rahul Gandhi cautions central government over Covid-19, economy

Congress former President Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday stated that India should be preparing itself not just for the coronavirus but for the economic distress, which the Congress leader said is approaching as he compared it to a tsunami.

Rahul Gandhi’s remarks came as India reported 126 positive cases of coronavirus and three patients have lost their lives due to Covid-19 across the country.

“The Indian economy is going to be devastated. You have no idea the painful thing the country has suffered and it is coming. It is like a tsunami is coming,” Rahul Gandhi said.

He narrated a story to say what had taken place in the Andaman and Nicobar island when a devastating tsunami hit sweeping away whole communities around the Indian Ocean in 2004.

“The water is going to come and I have been warning the government … They are fooling about, they are not clear about what they have to do. India should be preparing itself not just for Covid-19 but for the economic devastation that is coming,” he said.

“I am saying it again and again… I am sorry to say our people are going to go through unimaginable pain in the next six months,” he added.

This is Rahul Gandhi’s latest attack on the central government over its response to the coronavirus outbreak. He had earlier launched an attack on the centre after bloodbath in the markets in India over Covid-19 fears last Friday and blamed the government of being in a state of senselessness.

The Congress leader had tweeted his criticism after investors lost crores of rupees in less than 15 minutes of the market opening on Friday, with benchmarks crashing 10% on soaring fears over the pendemic.

“I will keep repeating this. The coronavirus is a huge problem. Ignoring the problem is a non solution,” Gandhi had said in his tweet.

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