UP infant deaths: Cong demands PM apology in I-Day address
August 14, 2017  20:37
The Congress today demanded that Prime Minister Narendra Modi apologise to the country in his Independence Day address for the death of children at a state-run hospital in Gorakhpur.

Congress senior spokesperson Ajay Maken attacked Modi for remaining silent on the death of 30 children, allegedly due to shortage of supply of liquid oxygen, within a span of 48 hours last week.

"The prime minister uses Twitter to say something about tragedies even in Turkey or USA, but he has not found any word to console the families of the dead children.

"We hope he apologises to the country for the deaths due to negligence in his address to the nation on Independence Day," Maken said.

The manner in which this government has failed, the way this incident has happened and there is negligence on the part of the government, "we hope that the prime minister will in his I-Day address first apologise", he said.
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