₹10 lakh each to the families of all Covid victims in the country, saying the government has no right to rule if it cannot provide that.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said the government can compensate the Covid-affected families from the tax collected on petrol and diesel. "The Covid-affected families can be compensated from a small part of the petrol-diesel tax collection -- this is their need and right.
The (Narendra) Modi government should not back out from this opportunity of providing assistance to the public in a disaster," he said in a tweet in Hindi.
Congress spokesperson Gourav Vallabh said the government will have to pay ₹40,000 crore as compensation to the Covid victims, which is only 10 per cent of of the ₹4 lakh crore that