{"id":3111,"date":"2020-12-20T11:45:14","date_gmt":"2020-12-20T11:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/?p=3111"},"modified":"2020-12-20T11:45:15","modified_gmt":"2020-12-20T11:45:15","slug":"modi-under-fire-for-destroying-millions-lives-failure-to-meet-21-day-claim-of-win-over-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/latest-world-news\/modi-under-fire-for-destroying-millions-lives-failure-to-meet-21-day-claim-of-win-over-covid\/","title":{"rendered":"Modi under fire for \u201cdestroying\u201d millions lives; failure to meet 21-day claim of win over COVID"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>ISLAMABAD,  : As COVID-19 caseload in India crossed 10 million mark, the opposition leaders attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi over failure of the \u201cunplanned lockdown\u201d strategy to fulfill his claim of defeating virus within 21 days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>India\u2019s&nbsp;COVID-19&nbsp;caseload surpassed 10 million mark on Saturday, adding one million cases in nearly a month, while the total number of recoveries surged to 9.5 million, according to the Indian health ministry data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c1 crore Covid infections with almost 1.5 lakh deaths! The unplanned lockdown did not manage to win the battle in 21 days\u2019 as the PM claimed, but it surely destroyed millions of lives in the country.\u201d Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said taking a dig at Modi\u2019s remarks in March that the Mahabharata war was won in 18 days and the war against\u00a0coronavirus\u00a0will take 21 days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A day after announcing a national lockdown for three weeks in March, Narendra Modi had said the \u201cbattle of Mahabharata was won in 18 days, the war the whole country is fighting against coronavirus will take 21 days.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur aim is to win this war in 21 days,\u201d he said interacting with the citizens of his parliamentary constituency Varanasi via video link.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Indian media, the country\u2019s\u00a0COVID-19\u00a0case tally had surpassed the two million mark on August 7, three million on August 23 and four million on September 5. 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