Covid in India: anger is mounting over the management of the crisis, Modi responds

Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital, overwhelmed by Covid-19 patients, in New Delhi, India, April 24, 2021. REUTERS - ADNAN ABIDI

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In India, voices are being raised against Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Part of the population and the media hold him responsible for the ongoing health disaster in the country.

The power retaliates by speaking of "disinformation" and deleted Saturday many tweets that criticized its management of the pandemic.

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With our correspondent in Bangalore,

Côme Bastin

Modi resignation

 ", "

 Modi murderer

 ", " 

no oxygen, no vote

 " ... Every day, Internet users invent new slogans to express their anger towards the Prime Minister.

Messages and images of Covid-19 patients in distress shake public opinion.

Narendra Modi is accused of not having prepared the country after the first wave and of not having taken the measure of the second.

Indians are paying the price for the Modi government's inaction on oxygen scarcity 

,"

Quartz India

headlines

.

Abroad, The

Times magazine

speaks of an " 

Indian hell

 " caused by its mismanagement.

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Read also: Covid-19: disaster scenario in India, submerged by the second wave

Threats from the BJP

Faced with this wave of discontent, the ruling BJP party seems to choose censorship and denial: 52

critical tweets

from public figures and opposition leaders have been deleted without explanation. 

No hospital lacks oxygen,

 " said the BJP chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state, against all likelihood.

He even threatened to seize the property of those who say otherwise.

In his address to the nation this Sunday, Narendra Modi urged Indians not to be fooled by “ 

disinformation

 ”.

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Read also: Covid-19: Indian hospitals facing the oxygen shortage

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