In a 33 minute interview to Karan Thapar for the Wire, Dushyant Dave was particularly critical of the Modi govt’s handling of the covid crisis. Prefacing his comment with his personal belief that if Mr Modi fails India will head towards anarchy, Mr Dave said “Modi is doing everything to fail.” He said the govt’s failure to anticipate a second wave and prepare for it, when second waves have happened in almost all European countries and the US and been far worse than the first, was “a criminal failure.” He said the govt had “failed disastrously”. Comparing the Modi govt to a private sector company’s response to a widely predictable crisis, Mr Dave said if a private company had been similarly irresponsible all its directors would have been arrested.
Mr Dave told The Wire Mr Modi never anticipated the magnitude of the problem and was therefore never prepared to handle it. In particular, he criticised the govt’s failure to come up with a proper national disaster management plan to handle the crisis.

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