KC Venugopal said that the whole country saw how people were yearning for oxygen and many patients died due to its shortage in many hospitals.
Congress leader KC Venugopal on Thursday moved a privilege motion against Minister of State for Health Bharathi Praveen Pawar for “misleading” Parliament over deaths due to lack of oxygen in the country amid the COVID-19 outbreak. He said the whole country saw how people were scrambling for oxygen and many patients in many hospitals died due to lack of life-saving gas during the second wave of the coronavirus.
“I have moved a privilege motion to the Rajya Sabha Chairman seeking action against the Minister of State for Health for giving wrong information to the Rajya Sabha on my starred question,” he told reporters here. Venugopal said he had asked the question as to how many people died due to lack of oxygen in the country, but the minister replied that no such deaths occurred.
He said, “This is completely baseless and against the truth as we have enough evidence in the public domain. You can see that his own Goa minister quoted that so many people died due to lack of oxygen. His Karnataka The minister also said so.” That the ministers of Haryana and Andhra Pradesh also acknowledged the deaths due to lack of oxygen.
The Congress leader said the MoS “misled the House with false information”. “That’s why I have moved a privilege motion asking the Speaker to send it to the Committee of Privileges for thorough investigation,” he said.
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