BJP's Kapil Mishra lambasts AAP govt for reserving hotel rooms for COVID-19 +ve officials

On Wednesday, BJP leer Kapil Mishra lashed out at Delhi government for allocating 250 hotel rooms for treatment of its COVID-19 positive officials and family members. He posted an order dated April 27 whereby Hotel Ginger, Hotel Park Plaza, Hotel Leela Ambience and Hotel Golden Tulip Essential have been directed to reserve 70 rooms, 50 rooms, 50 rooms and all rooms respectively for treatment of officials/officers of AAP government, automous bodies, Corporations, local bodies and ir kin who have tested positive for vel coronavirus. Rajiv Gandhi Super Speciality hospital and Deen Dayal Uphyay hospital will man se facilities. 

Shahdra District Magistrate and District Magistrate West will requisition se facilities with immediate effect. Mishra lamented that doctors, oxygen and medicines shall be diverted to se hotels from government hospitals. According to him, this cant be tolerated as common person is struggling to get even one bed or oxygen cylinder. At present, re are 98,264 active vel coronavirus cases in national capital while 9,58,792 patients have been discharged and 15,009 deaths were reported.

Delhi government withdraws Ashoka Hotel order

Earlier, order of Sub-Divisional Magistrate (Chanakyapuri) Geeta Grover to convert 100 rooms of Ashoka Hotel for setting up a COVID-19 health facility for use of Delhi HC judges, or judicial officers and ir families h attracted a lot of criticism. However,  division bench of Justices Vipin Sanghi and Rekha Palli denied having me any request to AAP government for using  Ashoka Hotel. Slamming Arvind Kejriwal-led government for passing orders right, left and centre, it asked, "Can we as an institution say that create a special facility for us? Will this t be blatantly discriminatory that people can’t get treatment and re is a facility in a five-star hotel for us?"

Questioning wher this was an attempt to appease court, it also rejected Delhi government's counsel Rahul Mehra's argument that media played a mischievous role in interpreting order. court stressed that it was order and t media that was wrong. Observing that it is unthinkable that Delhi HC as an institution will want any preferential treatment, it ted that vocate Santosh Tripathi has accepted tice on behalf of Delhi government and wishes to file a reply. Warning that HC will quash order if it is t withdrawn, it listed this matter for hearing on April 29. reafter, Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia issued directions to withdraw this order immediately.