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The disease has been deployed as the excuse to postpone a trust vote and local body elections.

Viral politics: From Madhya Pradesh to Modi’s Delhi, politicians use Covid-19 to push their agendas

As the Congress-led government in Madhya Pradesh faces a battle for survival as the Bharatiya Janata Party engineered defections in a bid to topple it, the speaker on Monday had an unusual excuse for refusing to conduct a vote of confidence in the assembly . He adjourned the house for ten days, accepting a submission from a minister who cited advisories against large gatherings in an attempt to contain the coronavirus outbreak. This was one of several instances in which Indian politicians have used the unprecedented conditions created by the disease as an excuse to push their specific agendas. On Friday, Modi proposed that the leaders of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation meet via video-conferencing to discuss how to tackle Covid-19. “I have no objections to an India-led SAARC approach to fighting Covid-19, but I think we must begin at home by providing better facilities for our own citizens who are sent to isolation wards,” argued foreign policy expert Happymon Jacob . On March 9, Bangladesh said anxiety about the disease had caused it to cancel the inauguration of the birth centenary celebrations of its founder, Mujibur Rahman, at which Modi was billed to be the chief guest. In Madhya Pradesh, at the time of publishing the article, the state governor had called for another floor test on Tuesday. Chief Minister YS Jaganmohan Redy accused the commission of working at the behest of the Opposition since, he claimed, his party would have swept the polls were they to be held. A similar controversy has arisen in West Bengal, where local body polls scheduled for later this month have been postponed on the suggestion of the ruling Trinamool Congress. In the West, politics around the disease has revolved around themes such as xenophobia (the virus was named with the word “Wuhan” to emphasise its foreignness ) or attacks on United States President Donald Trump from socialists .

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