said the devil to los than on mother she's so he's a very polarizing figure, but he's not in power. there are some who, you know, analysts who say he's somehow behind the scenes because some of his, some of the people in the military have been originally working with him even elbow hunt, who was his right hand man. if in hand it was his name. the other guy, and they're not 100, no amity of sweetie. also, it was his light hand man, and they were all apart somehow of the islamic leaning, you know, in a god or salvation from that woman sedan. so people say they are still ideologically linked to the sheer and people accuse the military of being actually still on the side of the hill. and they want to somehow to help her return all to hell. he's regime if not him in person to, you know, bring sedan back to square one and bring people who are, or his supporters, right? ma'am val, as i corresponded, hear it out 0. who knows? sudan very well will be hearing more from him

a throughout the day. thank you for now. mom at as we come up to half past the hour, just taking you through what we've been seeing in cartoon today, the sudanese capital on the left hand side of your screen at this near the tutti bridge, and downtown, or cartoon, close to a lot of important institutions, embassies, the numbers of thinned out there. but you can see on the right hand side of your screen, the number of people who are out on the streets and they are angry. there is so much anger about what the military has done to day into posing effectively the prime minister and several of his aids and other ministers, but also that deep seated anger that we were talking about with mom and the fact that people have not seen their lives improve in the last 3 years since this transitional government, a combined civilian military government has been in power. this is the result of it all. it comes out all in the anger of the people on the streets who are and

just as my team to look at the pictures on, oh, it's 12, which is not live, but it shows pictures of people heading towards the general command of the military, muhammad, telling us that is actually prominent within the city, it's not out on the outskirts of town. it's part of the city, the military always making their presence known in hudson. so just returned to their pictures were seen of the protest. they're the burning tires. we are hearing reports of 12 injuries. i think it was so saw and this has been going on for a good 4 or 5 hours now. mobiles are networks are and the internet levels are being throttled as well. anything to stifle the flow of information. we're going to take a break on out their agent finnigan back with you in about 25 minutes time with the news. are all the latest from sudan and the rest of the world coming up at $1000.00 us leaders from the world's biggest economists will convene in rome this month to discuss the deteriorating economic situation in afghanistan. with all i will also

be on the g twenty's response to the climate emergency. can they find a way to prioritize the planets health over gdp, special coverage on out to say hello and welcome to context india. i'm feta sosa, coming to you from the city of moon by on context india. our aim is to give you an in depth look into the world's most populous democracy. from the insight we're not chasing breaking stories. instead, we're taking the time to deliver a fuller mo, considered analysis of india. it's politics and it's people. in each of the 4 episodes in this series, we'll be taking a closer look at a specific facet of what has perhaps been the biggest crisis india has faced. since independence. coven devastated numerous countries. but india's experience,

especially during the 2nd wave that began in april 2021, was one of the most shocking pandemic ordeals the cove at impact. both in the short and the long term will be significant. and that is why it is the focus of this series. in this 1st episode will be analyzing the role of government. i will be speaking with priyanka chad, to really member of parliament and a senior opposition politician and marines. nathan asia, a leader in the ruling vantage and our party b g. p, would be discussing issues of accountability, crisis management, and why india has suffered so many avoidable debts during the pandemic will be closing each week's episode with a piece of pandemic art. music created by indian artists in the many months. cool. it was around this week. we're sharing a tune by a group of 4 crocker's sweat after ah,

understanding how and why covered? reeked such have or can india understanding what steps were taken and not taken by the government. and understanding the lessons from the indian pandemic experienced requires us to step back in time. at the beginning of 2021, india looked like it had beaten cove. it a stringent national lockdown during the 1st wave was followed by a fall in case numbers. the country was getting back to business as usual. the messaging from the movie government was that india was a beacon for a post cupboard future. 1.3000000000, so job argued that a play bonnie actually miss ross zagata was back on me. got got a guy just 2 months after the speech by prime minister movie to the world economic

forum. india was in the trolls of a catastrophic 2nd with a new mutation of the grown adult of and spreading like wildfire. at the peak of the 2nd wave in me 2021. india was reporting approximately 400000 daily cases and 4000 daily debt. according to numerous statistical studies, however, these official figure was significant underestimate. the delta of it into law doesn't explain the magnitude of what was unfolding. the actions that the indian state require some scrutiny. first, the government. yes. governments both federal and regional levels like that got down in march 2021 india, then health minister doctor hush for the girl. had this to say about that go to all of us today to go. i think the

approach not just 3 days after the minister made this speech, a group of scientific adviser, all boss of a government organized consortium shed data, the ministry of health, indicating that new was contagious mutations. corona virus spreading and india according to our lasting spokesperson of the volunteer agenda. parties to be gp, be honest to respond to scientific data was on the regional or state government incentive government. and in the leadership of our prime minister, not in the g. we have got more than 70 commit to monitor the trend of this virus. and in february 2021, the committees had 113 states like at a loss mirage drug took, discard that they can see research of the cases in the state and they should be on alert. but somehow they didn't do any he to these warning and it spread in all of

the country. the prime minister did have official meetings related to corporate 19 leading up to the 2nd wave of ever significantly reduced between generally in march 2021. in fact, in march, the prime minister had only one meeting with the chief minister. so whenever we think about this training, they always multiple factors that i'm a vision wasn't really the been up until, but our ability to detect it and to act on it was something that we could have done if we had been better. and of course, there was no need for us to set up super trading events that wound up spreading the disease. every part of it wasn't just one super better event. they will multiple,

it was the come may law festival, a hinder pilgrimage that reached its most crucial. in march and april 2021. millions converged in the north indian state of more than 3000000 people. taking a ritual in again, just river on the 12th of april. on that same day, india recorded more than 160000 daily cases at the same time as all of this campaigning for regional elections in western gold, canada. and some will not do what i'm doing. and the prime minister movie and key members of his cabinet were headlining, massive political rallies, arch job, many as need about a decade. any super spread event, any place there that knowledge number of people get that will be a problem. and if you look at those 50, he 18 times. you can you, in cases in the 2nd building for me and in the election. also the

huge value in 2 pieces and you know, case of have gone up in every single city elections as case number sold and more people required hospitalization in their health care system was utterly overwhelmed by early april 2021 major cities like bengal m, about and even the capital new delhi were facing massive shortages of ice you beds and oxygen. by april 22nd, the supreme court of india instructed the government to court beg, borrow steel or import and good to meet the skyrocketing demand for oxygen. that was the same day, april 22nd. when the government finally hit the breaks on big public events. but things had already gotten out of hand by the middle of me because of bodies was seen floating in box of the gun just river. washing up along its banks,

territorial and burial grounds will fall to capacity, and people were depositing bodies into the water. there was some critics who said that the media coverage of all of this was part of a conspiracy against the chief minister of the state of the physician to which much of again, just flows. when you see the op ex, are the pictures of dead bodies into but again, just or v c b cremation. grounds. then i will say this is a on the because we never saw any picture, all chum genes that just mostly graveyards on the hindu. why? so because we have got among who is heading with the for these any analysis of india 2nd and its aftermath has the fact. so the countries vaccination policy at the end of march 2021 in the representative to be united nation delivered to somebody the government priority. as of today,

we have supplied move axioms globally that have actually need to know when people 2021 had begun with vaccine export, skyrocketing and india. one of the biggest vaccine producers globally calling itself was pharmacy index. 1466000000 doses of the code, 900 vaccine, the 95 countries until the end of me 2021. i didn't truly have a problem with the exports from the beginning. they closed the way exporting at the time in cases and then you know, very little and, and good global citizen. it made sense to look at that time. but i think what was really needed was that we should have had a policy that was clearly bows out and took banks to react to the situation. domestic by the end of march 2021 in the altered export. and them sell the national campaign to an actually citizen. in july 2021 prime minister movie

overhauls his cabinet. the headline change within the ministry of health. sure, the girl was replaced, i knew minister when to mandavi's. another key appointment was in the ministry of information in book costing, the indian government determined to change fanatics in the country. so what could have been avoided in india's pandemic experience? what has been learned to prepare the country for future searches and outbreaks? i am speaking with miss priyanka to really a member of parliament with the ship seen our party, representing the opposition and from the b j. p, which is the party that runs the central government and several state governments. mr. named nathan asia was the lead over the 40 by opening question is to the both of you, but i'll start with you mr. the nature. the pandemic 2nd wave in india exposed the fragility of india's institutions and its health care infrastructure. several critics are calling it an,

an mitigated disaster. why did this happen and who was mostly responsible, mr. kanisha? well, the whole has been a challenge, not for the 2nd a union of states and has a state subject. central government is very important role, but when you look at these days, some states might have an investor just for the challenge as well. but i think over going to look at the future. and in some cases, some students then better than the others and sent to them and also the welcome to 47 bites on the primary. so official, this ultimately i want to give you an option once the same question was the 2nd wave in your opinion and unmitigated disaster. and who do you think was most responsible for as far as the secondary was concerned, there were some failures on our part. and just to put this in context, i must say,

once the indian epidemic act was put into place, the central government becomes solar, puerto di, sending guidelines to way the state, whether it is in terms of medication, in terms of treatment protocols, in terms of vaccination. now, what happened to the 2nd week, we had a election campaigns going on and voted this regard to a 2nd wave, which was, you know, happening across the world was getting a t as in the face. but there was no capacity building happening. we had started fighting ourselves on the back about having a, you know, one over a, as far as india, as a populous nation is concerned, there were shortage of bits. they were shortage of oxygen. they were shocked to do medicines, those shortage of vaccines. and how do we plan ourselves better is something that me as a state and as a country would need to look at our resources to ensure that we do not pay something like this. even again, this is the nature we know now that in early 2021 there was scientists who had submitted reports to government warning off

a very infectious variant that pro jacob across the country. nevertheless, the government allowed large scale events to take place. do you say now the central government would take responsibility for those a way to win debts? first of all, you see who is a global crisis and the work together is trying to be destroyed. once you central government takes the job done to the government mostly. but then again, on the ground, that is the responsibility of the states. but a lot of the government allowed to go, never did that. government actually moved to the election. that was the election commission of which is an almost organization is not part of it. and in terms of it is going on 49 percent century, it was kind of, you know, in the country. it was kind of an informal consensus in the country that actually

we are kind of coming out of it is in fact the 2nd being all of us. but as of right now, most of the needs are the new york times put out an article saying senior officials at the indian council for medical research. the i. c. m, are forced scientists of elite institutions to downplay the threat of the pandemic . to prioritize mr. moore, these political go and how do you respond to that? well, i just wanted to let you know this might be by good for you, not for me. now the point is that you might talk with a, i see him, are there any of the organizations give it a bit organizational, or maybe for me to the government, west africa, to where did you want to respond to that? come from the state of russia. it's our highest amount of caseload at one particular point in time. but he also realized the shortcomings in terms of where we could be lacking when the 2nd wave strikes. our task was led by scientists,

was led by medical experts and everybody continued to one that there is a 2nd wave coming. and if you don't take that is if you're going to base capacities, you're going to have a problem. what unfortunately happened at the center was a clear declaration of we have will, will come to plus 3, that is going to be no 2nd wave and we went and gave over all right, scenes as well. so these are challenges and i think acceptance of those mistakes only makes you stronger and prepares you better for the future. don't deny what is coming in the new york times to deny what is being reported in get newspapers to even deny in your parliament. the question that nobody died of oxygen shortage, i think is an unfortunate way of preparing yourself for the future and the capacity building that is needed for the country. you represent the ships in our party, which runs marsh trucks was hit save in the country home to them by which is our major business city, where the 2nd wave really mushrooms, the 7th of april 2021 mister dr. hush for them. going was the ben hill minister of the country said, and i court, i have been

a witness of the miss governance and i took casual approach of the marshal government in battling the vidas. the lackadaisical attitude of this state government has singularly bog down the entire country efforts to fight the virus. what is your response to that? mara was the only state which was reporting transparently. and the health minister stepping down is the biggest response that would come from the prime minister about what his statements were about. mister then he said, you agreed that the cabinetry shuffle in the removal of the health minister in the middle of a health crisis was an acknowledgment of mismanagement on the part of the central government. evidently, shipment was a long overdue and the doctor hospital. the degree i'm in this performance or was absolutely why it is not the center of the city of the steering compared to what it actually man is to can be the 2nd big you know, the mother country with the was certain

asia at the beginning of 2021, the indian government was justifiably proud that india was supplying vaccines to the world. but on the domestic side, by mid january, the government had only ordered 16500000 doses, for the population of over 1300000000. when the 2nd wave hit, producers had to break their export deal so that indian citizens could be vaccinated yet at the start of june, only 3 percent of the population had been fully vaccinated. why was the domestic vaccinations so poorly planned? lou, it is a dynamic situation globally when we realize that actually mostly for you know, for our own people to decided on next for a student to another student. i think it's remark, it will be less, less a 2nd with opportunity to rebut. actually,

unfortunately for mr. the nature to make it political by saying a field of control. i thought that was extremely unfortunate because data will tell you variances line with the problems like talk about transparency so that, that is a challenge where i think india as a nation feel under the governance of the central don't miss out of it is easy to criticize the central government, but if we look at marcia with one of the largest state budgets and also some of the worst inequality when it comes to healthcare, shouldn't matter. so government take responsibility for the fact that it's health care infrastructure is inadequate. i will accept all judges about higher numbers about reporting numbers, et cetera, but i will not accept. then what i show is not prepared for the 2nd. in terms of, you know, identifying radians, you are doing good in terms of ensuring that capacity will legal vaccine happens. you're doing it in terms of creating field hospitals besides the hospitals, ritual government, hospitals. we were doing it the 1st day tried to put a cap on the kind of pricing that the hospitals were charging us. i must remind you

one fact that nowhere in the world did the central government wash off its responsibilities, or ensuring the vaccine to wal eligible population. and ensuring that were adequate stockpile of vaccines. so that states are not left on their own. and so now will find your vaccines on your own, mr. the nature, would you agree that the b g during the 2nd, dave was also fixated on controlling the narrative and managing its image during the pandemic. in april, the chief minister for the petition, which is a be to be strong, told officials to clamp down on hospitals that were complaining to the media about oxygen shortages. the state even pressed criminal charges against one civilian individual who had used twitter to request for oxygen for a loved one. well, the one city is all the 1120 in our country. you see the point here is that government didn't have time for this. b is the city last b moving off season,

doing whatever the and the kind of support we can mobilize with government. and whenever possible, our so busy we didn't have time for managing emergent. those and i think that was not a saturday. the one of the frequent criticisms of the opposition that you represent in parliament is that there's no cohesive voice that they haven't really been very vocal advocates of the citizens of this country during the 2nd. be able to find me even in parliament when parliamentary convened, the focus was not so much on accountability. over coven, why is that? as an opposition we have come together for the 1st time? in fact, i would say during this particular session, $17.00 to $18.00 political parties came together to ask for answers from the government of india. and it was about call when it was about rising fuel prices. it was about peg. this isn't it has to do with national security. so i would say there has been more or has a response this time around with many political parties. we have different says of

opinions on various other issues. but coming together under one umbrella to be able to hold the government accountable, government would not. i have answers. and by having the health minister step done just before the session began, speaks what it says that government also gave a vote of no confidence, especially the prime minister to the health ministers response to the pandemic. and obviously that you could call it be holding him the scapegoat making him this cable and asking him to step down and take all the model. responsibility is another thing for the government to address. not for me to say, i have a question for both of you don't the citizens of into deserve accountability. will there be an independent in quality order so that we learn from these mistakes on a certain a job? will the government continue to maintain that you did a fantastic job in terms of accountability just for the democracy? so that's why you will election a fish if we have not done anything. as some people claim a lot of money they're seen as working on that aren't going to 4 by 7. do see that what you have done for the, you know,

a best when it comes to accountability with people, not the best. my point was that a? yes i was to, you know, i want to know on my i'm sorry, i think if that is the basis of apology, then i think the feminist was an apology to the entire nation. it's not just of interest. your family. there are many families that suffered so many bodies are found floating in the gun when even debts when time departed from states like my lights, my depredation, like goods at odds with the british, as far as citizens of the country are concerned, election is not the only mccann is them off checking popularity and having so the people of the country democracy is also seen in the parliament. democracy also comes when you allow the opposition to be able to hold you accountable and seek answers from you. democracy also tells you that when the government has been given

a chance to govern opposition has been given the authority to question. that's how democracy works. it does not work on election to election basis. of course in a democracy election is not the only platform to many of them to see if you know me asking question question. so this is asking the question opposition? just asking the question when it comes to democracy is important. we have a strong opposition in the country. we want that was not what they only the prime minister going to by the way or by 7 or do you want to say, but tell us, you can tell us how good you will ever handle the situations. you know what happened on where to go. hi, melissa, talk, melissa. i completed it. and so i wanted to be, i actually gave an answer to how the call would have been managed better by telling you that in the state of but i thought it was led by scientists. it was led by

medical exports. we created field hospitals, we decentralized boardwalks. so i would just see one thing you can listen from the point of not responding. you can sometimes listen to get more ideas or if miss anthony child was shot to really thank you for joining us. her on a context to do now to see her. i appreciate your time. and finally, on the shore, we want to share our space with indian voices outside of government, academics, and the mainstream media. india abounds with artists who create work in multiple languages. every week will be bringing you music created during the pandemic. today we're presenting an except for song in the bush can be gina, meaning living through tough times composed and presented by split out a full crock band from the city of bengal. lulu in south india. it's a gentle reminder that even in grim times, you must choose to live. i hope you enjoy the music. i'll see you next week on

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