Corona will win if stakeholders fight with each other: Kejriwal after oxygen controversy

New Delhi, June 26

Seeking to move on from the controversy over a Supreme Court-appointed panel report on Delhi’s oxygen demand, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday called for everyone to work together to ensure there is no shortage of oxygen in the next Covid wave.

The virus will win if there is a fight among stakeholders, Kejriwal tweeted a day after his Aam Aadmi Party and the BJP hit out at each each other over the report that said Delhi’s oxygen needs were “exaggerated” four times over during the second Covid wave.

“May we work now if your fight over oxygen is finished? Let us together make a system so no one faces shortage of oxygen in third wave,” Kejriwal said in his tweet in Hindi.

“There was an acute shortage of oxygen in the second wave. It should not be so in the third. Corona will win if we fight with each other. The nation will win if we fight together,” he added.

While AAP leaders accused the BJP of “cooking up” the report, the saffron party charged the Delhi government with “criminal negligence”.

Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia alleged that the “bogus” and “misleading” report was “cooked up” at the BJP’s office and submitted by the Centre in the apex court. PTI