The Congress has also taken swipes at the government over its ‘taali-thaali’ call last year in which people across India clapped, rang bells, blew conch shells and beat metal plates in solidarity with health workers fighting the novel coronavirus.
Rahul Gandhi’s attack on the government came amid a steep rise in coronavirus cases in the country with a record 2,17,353 new infections taking India’s total tally of COVID-19 cases to 1,42,91,917 on Friday.