India's new crown cases have soared, and the new Prime Minister's Office has been dissatisfied...

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Modi's 70th birthday is uneasy

  [Global Times reporter Yuan Jirong] The number of confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia in India is still increasing sharply.

The total number of confirmed diagnoses on the 17th has exceeded 5.1 million, with a total of 83,198 deaths, and 97,894 newly diagnosed people on the 17th.

"India Today" stated on the 17th that by early October, India will surpass the United States and become the country with the worst epidemic in the world.

Data map: Indian Prime Minister Modi.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Sheng Jiapeng

  Indian Prime Minister Modi celebrated his 70th birthday on the 17th.

On that day, Indian politicians and a large number of Bollywood stars gave him birthday wishes.

However, Modi's birthday is not easy.

He not only has to face 5.1 million confirmed cases, but also accepts severe criticism of the building of the Capitol.

According to the reconstruction plan, the government will invest 3 billion U.S. dollars in the next four years to build a triangular parliament building and a new prime minister’s office next to the existing parliament building.

Such high repair costs aroused strong dissatisfaction among the Indian people.

Some Indian media accused that the epidemic has left tens of millions of people unemployed in India and brought heavy financial pressure to the government. What is most urgently needed now is to spend billions of dollars on urgently needed anti-epidemic supplies instead of spending on large-scale construction.

  A source said on the 17th that India now needs to build political mutual trust between the ruling party and the opposition party, abandon partisan prejudices, stop meaningless political offensives, and work together to meet the severe challenge of the epidemic. This is obviously more urgent than the renovation of the parliament building. And important.

In addition, the source also said that the nationwide blockade measures adopted to control the epidemic this year have already stretched India’s finances. In this context, should the government consider temporarily delaying the start of this costly engineering project while using limited funds. What about areas where people’s livelihood is more needed?