Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday attacked the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government in Gujarat over a news report which stated that the state has the highest mortality rate. Gujarat is Prime Minister Narendra Modi's home state.

In a tweet, Rahul Gandhi quoted mortality rate figures from the report from across the states in the country and said the highest fatality rate has "exposed the Gujarat Model".

Tweeting a news report on a state in India with the highest mortality rate, Rahul Gandhi said, "Gujarat: 6.25%, Maharashtra: 3.73%, Rajasthan: 2.32%, Punjab: 2.17%, Puducherry: 1.98%, Jharkhand: 0.5%, Chhattisgarh: 0.35%. Gujarat Model exposed."

With a little over 24,000 confirmed coronavirus cases, Gujarat has India's fourth-highest Covid caseload.

While 1,505 people have so far died due to the coronaviurs in the state, 16,664 have cured of the infection.

Gujarat reported 514 new coronavirus cases on Monday, taking the count to 24,104, while the death toll rose to 1,506 with 28 new fatalities, the state health department said.

Gujarat has so far conducted tested 2,92,909 samples for coronavirus.