Sena's Priyanka Chaturvedi shows mirror to Pak PM Imran after his ludicrous dig at India

Giving it back to Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan for his ludicrous attempt to take shots at India, Shiv Sena Rajya Sabha MP Priyanka Chaturvedi said leer should t justify his government's flouting of World Health Organisation (WHO)-vised lockdown by dragging India into ir narrative even as Pakistan reports record daily spikes in Coronavirus cases.

Hailing Pakistan's 'successful' cash transfer program, Imran Khan, on Thursday, offered to help India in mimicking his direct cash transfer, based on a report claiming that '84% Indian households suffered monthly income decrease'. Citing same report he claimed that '34% of all households won't survive a week without cash assistance'.

Chaturvedi retweeted Khan's tweet and exposed leer's narrow attempt to trick his own countrymen by changing narrative and deflect attention of his government's failings.

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study cited by Imran Khan was based on data from Centre for Monitoring Indian Ecomy (CMIE) was published on May 12 — a day before PM Modi anunced Rs 20 lakh crore 'Atmanirbhar Bharat' pack to kickstart Indian ecomy.

IMF's loan to Pakistan

While India has t requested funds to tide over COVID-19 crisis from International Monetary Fund (IMF), direct cash transfer 'hailed' by Khan is a bailout handed by IMF via a three-year loan requested by Khan. In April 2020, he  IMF approved disbursement of $1.386 billion to Pakistan under Rapid Financing Instrument to dress ecomic impact of Covid-19 shock. This aid was in dition to $6 billion loan provided by IMF to Khan in July 2019, with a $ 1 billion tranche immediately available.

Pakistan has so far reported 1,22,574 cases of COVID-19, of which 2394 patients have died while 38,391 people have recovered. According to Johns Hopkins University data, country ranks 15 among  most affected countries in world.

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