Is Uddhav Thackeray intentionally derailing Maharashtra’s COVID battle to extort cash from the central authorities?

The Uddhav authorities has confirmed itself to be disastrous within the dealing with of the coronavirus in Maharashtra to date. The state is recording the very best variety of coronavirus instances in addition to deaths throughout the nation. In truth, Maharashtra alone accounts for greater than half of India’s whole instances presently.A couple of days in the past, the Union authorities launched 11,000 crore rupees to totally different states within the state catastrophe aid administration fund accounts to be able to assist them with the battle towards the Coronavirus. A considerable amount of this fund (1,611 crore rupees) went to Maharashtra alone due to the excessive caseload within the state.“The Central Government has released in advance its share of first instalment of SDRMF for the year 2020-21, amounting to 11,092 crore rupees, to augment funds available with the State governments,” a press release by the MHA stated.Given the lacklustre response of the Uddhav authorities within the battle towards the Coronavirus, evidently Maharashtra is intentionally permitting the caseload to surge to get monetary assist from the Union authorities. Yet, the Modi authorities continues serving to the state within the battle towards Coronavirus financially in addition to with human professionals to make sure that the scenario might be introduced underneath management.However, the Uddhav authorities doesn’t look proactive to regulate the scenario, as a result of they maintain getting monetary assist from the Union authorities to battle the virus. In the previous couple of months, the monetary scenario in Maharashtra has worsened on account of falling tax assortment (cash goes on to politicians’ coffers, not state treasury) and rising expenditure.The Uddhav authorities has usually been criticised for destroying the economic system of the state within the final one and a half years and the monetary assist from the Union authorities appears to be the one possibility to save lots of itself from chapter.Recently, the MVA authorities had imposed an evening curfew from 8 pm to 7 am from Monday while concurrently saying that the state will even go for an entire weekend lockdown from 8 pm on Friday to 7 am on Monday. As per the brand new guidelines, accommodations and eating places can solely enable takeaways. In-hotel eating is not going to be permitted. The quick response of the hospitality and eating sector has been tear-jerking and emotional, to say the least.The Uddhav authorities has not been in a position to management the virus regardless of having the perfect medical professionals (Mumbai has lots of the prime hospitals within the nation) and spending billions of {dollars} of taxpayers’ cash (of the state treasury in addition to the cash given by union authorities).Despite the oft-repeated recommendation from the highest medical professionals that the lockdowns don’t assist to stop the virus from spreading, the Uddhav authorities allegedly resorted to its personal methods and because of this, the instances of COVID have surged in Maharashtra. The preliminary lockdown was imposed to purchase time to ramp up medical infrastructure and a lot of the states like Odisha, UP and Bihar constructed hospitals and augmented the capability.Maharashtra, however, didn’t take steps to ramp up medical infrastructure underneath the management of Uddhav Thackeray. The Shiv Sena supremo appears single-handedly answerable for the worsening scenario of the state and is reportedly cashing in on the cash despatched by the union authorities to battle towards the virus.