Government has no lockdown exit strategy: Congress

New Delhi: The Congress on Wednesday accused the government of implementing the countrywide lockdown in an unplanned manner and also alleged it does not have any exit strategy.

Congress spokesperson Abhishek Singhvi said this government is synonymous with 'inefficiency, incompetence and insensitivity' and its taskforce has been indulging in 'data jugglery' to claim that 'there will be zero cases by May 16'.

"This government has become synonymous with inefficiency, incompetence, and insensitivity," he said.

"Lockdown might be a good technique and we support it. But this government has no strategy for going into lockdown or coming out of it," Singhvi told reporters at a virtual press conference."What has been the cost-benefit ratio of an unplanned lockdown and a clueless government on how and when to exit it? Let the nation judge," he asked.

He said the government's own taskforce showed a graph of coronavirus cases, with everything peaking on April 24 and then dropping to zero on May 16. "Is it (the government) shamelessly misleading its people without any apology and contrition," he asked.