Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Friday asked the opposition parties to stop playing politics over oxygen shortage during the second wave of COVID-19 infections and take note of the Centre’s efforts to ramp production of the life-saving gas to meet the surge in demand. Addressing the Lok Sabha during the Question Hour, he said … Read more
Who would succeed Vijay Rupani as Gujarat chief minister? Political pundits are struggling to answer that question, assigning a range of probabilities to several potential successors, after Rupani’s surprise exit Saturday 15 months ahead of the scheduled balloting to elect the next Gujarat assembly. Potential successors include Union ministers Parshottam Rupala and Mansukh Mandavia, administrator … Read more
Health minister Mansukh Mandavia emphasised in the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday that political parties and state governments should not bring politics into the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic, which may have a third wave, even as he assured that the supply of vaccines, oxygen, medicines and other logistics is being ramped up. The Upper House … Read more