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PM Modi says lockdown a small price to pay for warding off virus danger
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NEW DELHI : Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said that the three-week-long nationwide lockdown is a small price to pay for warding off the danger posed by the rapid spread of Covid-19, although he admitted that his decree would inconvenience people.
Speaking to representatives from his Lok Sabha constituency of Varanasi, the prime minister’s first direct engagement with the public after Tuesday’s announcement, Modi addressed concerns that have emerged after the union government announced the lockdown, the most severe such measure undertaken by any government in human history.
The prime minister not only reassured citizens that an adequate supply of essential commodities would be made available but also sought to enlist people’s
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