After Supreme Court called out the Delhi government for poor handling of the Covid-19 in the capital, Home Minister Amit Shah & Health Minister Dr. Harsh Vardhan met CM Arvind Kejriwal to provide additional assistance from the Centre to jointly fight the virus. Complete Coverage: Coronavirus
Crux of the Matter
Long-going Tussle The past few years have seen multiple face-offs between the central government and the Delhi state government. AAP has been a strong critic of the center on issues like CAA, NRC, Article 370, Delhi Riots, power-sharing, GST, Balakot Strikes, and Demonetization whereas Centre has called out AAP’s Odd-Even & Mohalla Clinic Schemes failures. Apart from this, the Delhi government has been in a constant tussle with the LG who the AAP has accused of being a speed breaker in their way and a puppet of the central government. They have time and again demanded full statehood, control of Delhi Police, and control of DDA. AAP has constantly accused the central government of neglecting issues of Delhi and not providing enough support and sufficient money.
अगर एक फ़ाइल क्लियर करने के लिए LG के घर जा कर 10 दिन का अनशन करना पड़े तो ऐसे सरकार कैसे चलेगी? दिल्ली का विकास कैसे होगा? : @ArvindKejriwal #DelhiVsCenter pic.twitter.com/alNhrUyEoK — AAP (@AamAadmiParty) February 14, 2019
On multiple occasions the AAP was forced to bend down before the LG and not to forget the first time when AAP came in power; they held a protest outside the LG house and also resigned. Very recently after Arvind Kejriwal announced to reserve the Delhi government hospitals only for residents of Delhi; the decision was overturned by the LG. Even on the issue of Migrant laborers both the governments were seen to blame each other.
COVID-19 Bridging Gaps & reducing Indifferences As the surge in cases continues and the situation becomes more critical with 231 containment zones in the state; the central government has now stepped in to provide additional assistance to the AAP government. Right from the first day of lockdown, understanding the need of the hour, the Delhi government has toned down and has taken a defensive approach and is seen to be working in a coordinated manner with the center without indulging in any petty politics.
Going by the current doubling rate in Delhi, 5.5 lakh cases, and over 80,000 hospital beds are expected by the end of July, for which Delhi is not adequately prepared and thus both the state and national machinery will jointly work to combat the spread of the virus. Manish Sisodia, Deputy Chief Minister, New Delhi
Home Minister Amit Shah has announced that Delhi will be given 500 railway coaches to address the shortage of beds for coronavirus patients. The railway coaches equipped with all facilities to fight COVID will increase 8000 beds for Delhi. Delhi which was criticized for reducing tests will also receive help to increase the number of tests to 18,000 per day. COVID-19 tests in Delhi will be doubled in the next two days and tripled after six days. Testing will be started at every polling station in each containment zone. The Centre will also supply the necessary resources including random test kits, oxygen cylinders, ventilators, and pulse oximeters. Contact mapping will be improved by a comprehensive health survey for every person to reduce containment zones.
HM @AmitShah chairs meeting with Health Minister @drharshvardhan, @LtGovDelhi, CM @ArvindKejriwal, all 3 Mayors of MCD and other senior officers of central & Delhi govt to ensure proper implementation of decisions to make Delhi Corona free. Press release:https://t.co/1gm0Zv4gh1 pic.twitter.com/LhjElN93H4 — गृहमंत्री कार्यालय, HMO India (@HMOIndia) June 14, 2020
The national capital now stands at the third position after Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu with nearly 41,000 cases so far and recorded more than 2,000 cases for a second consecutive day on June 13.
Curiopedia
There are a number of myths and legends associated with the origin of the name Delhi. One of them is that the name of the city at the time of King Prithviraj was Dilpat, and that Dilpat and Dilli are probably derived from the old Hindi word Dil meaning eminence.
Federalism in India refers to relations between the Centre and states of the Union of India. The Constitution of India establishes the structure of the Indian government. Part XI of the Indian constitution specifies the distribution of legislative, administrative and executive powers between the union government and the States of India.
In India, “The Emergency” refers to a 21 month period from 1975 to 1977 when Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had a state of emergency declared across the country. Officially issued by President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed under Article 352 of the Constitution because of the prevailing “internal disturbance”, the Emergency was in effect from 25 June 1975 until its withdrawal on 21 March 1977. The Emergency is one of the most controversial periods of independent India’s history. The words “secular” and “socialist” were added to the preamble in 1976 during the Emergency.
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