Amid rising COVID-19 cases, the Delhi government has decided to convert 100 rooms of Ashoka Hotel as a Covid Health facility for Justices and other judicial officers of the Delhi High Court and their families.
Amid the surge of Covid-19 cases in the national capital, several judges of the Delhi High Court tested positive for coronavirus recently. In the order, the Delhi government said Primus Hospital in Chanakyapuri will run the Community Health Centre (CHC) facility at Ashoka Hotel.
“A request has been received from Delhi High Court for setting up of CHC facility for the Justices and other judicial officers of Delhi High Court and their families,” the government said.
This news has been widely criticised by people who are taking to social media to express their views and condemn the ruling Aam Aadmi Party. The order is being called as ‘partial’ and ‘unfair’.
One Twitter user wrote, “The poor & the middle class are dying on roads due to shortage of oxygen & hospital beds while the judges & their families of Delhi High court would be shifted to Ashoka Hotel. That’s Kejriwal (Aam Aadmi) for you.”
The poor & the middle class are dying on roads due to shortage of oxygen & hospital beds while the judges & their families of Delhi High court would be shifted to Ashoka Hotel.
That’s Kejriwal (Aam Aadmi) for you.— Pracool (@thehighmonk) April 27, 2021
Another person wrote, “Under what provisions the exclusive COVID hospital is being made at Hotel Ashoka, Chanakya Puri for the Judges, Judicial officers and their relatives. This is VIP culture. This must not happen.”
Under what provisions the exclusive COVID hospital is being made at Hotel Ashoka, Chanakya Puri for the Judges, Judicial officers and their relatives. This is VIP culture. This must not happen. @PMOIndia @HMOIndia @narendramodi @JatinPaul @DMNewDelhi pic.twitter.com/gH6kyTExnA
— HimanshuG (@HimanshuKKV) April 27, 2021
The #AshokaHotel controversy shows us that we have eventually ended up in an Orwellian and a classist state, controlled by the elites.
Democracy has become a myth, just like equality!
अंधेर नगरी, चौपट राजा!
— Abhishek Singhvi (@DrAMSinghvi) April 27, 2021
While thousands are struggling to get hospital beds and meds, the Delhi govt has decided to use 100 rooms of 5-star Ashoka hotel as a Covid hospital for Delhi high court judges and their families
Yeah, tell me again how we’re all equal and treated the same.
— Andre Borges (@borges) April 27, 2021
What do you think about this?
Source: Free Press Journal
