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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | When Social Media Was Flooded With COVID SOS Calls, Union Ministers Only Praised Centre

When Social Media Was Flooded With COVID SOS Calls, Union Ministers Only Praised Centre

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published Published on May 18, 2021   modified Modified on May 19, 2021

-TheWire.in

Dainik Bhaskar's analysis of tweets posted by ten Union ministers revealed that none of them tweeted to help a COVID-19 victim find an oxygen cylinder or a hospital bed through handles.

New Delhi: During the first two weeks of May when social media was filled with SOS messages for ‘oxygen’ and ‘ventilator beds’, Union ministers were proactive on Twitter praising the prime minister and the Centre’s efforts in managing the pandemic. A report by Dainik Bhaskar analysed 1,110 tweets of ten ministers in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s cabinet between May 1 to 14 – when the coronavirus infections during the second wave hit record highs.

The report revealed that none of the ministers helped a COVID-19 victim find an oxygen cylinder or a hospital bed through their official Twitter handles even as people were dying for want of oxygen and ventilator beds.

The report revealed home minister Amit Shah made just one tweet related to the preparations to deal with the coronavirus, between May 1 to 14. However, Shah’s Twitter timeline has more posts related to election, birth and death anniversaries and condolences – a seeming indifference to the fact that India was reeling under the second wave of the pandemic.

This is in stark contrast to how many ministers rushed to share an article written by a BJP leader that defended Modi, at a time when the prime minister was facing flak in the country and abroad for his handling of the pandemic.

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TheWire.in, 18 May, 2021, https://thewire.in/politics/india-second-covid-wave-bjp-tweet-analysis-sos-amit-shah-harsh-vardhan-modi


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