Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday, July 15, lauded Yogi Adityanath’s “unprecedented” success in tackling the Covid second wave and provided a ringing endorsement of the chief minister’s handling of law and order, particularly crimes against women.
But is this true? Certainly not, for news reports over the last few months have shown how miserably the Yogi Adityanath government has failed in tackling the pandemic.
In this episode of ‘Arfa ka India’, The Wire‘s Arfa Khanum Sherwani speaks to Ram Dutt Tripathi, a senior journalist from Uttar Pradesh, to understand what lies behind the lavishing praise of Modi in the wake of 2022 assembly elections in the state.