Union govt hiding Covid toll: Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi

HYDERABAD: All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) president and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi has charged the BJP government at the Centre of not revealing the actual death toll caused by Covid-19.
Epidemiologists are saying that the number of deaths could be five to six times more than what has been revealed by the central government, but the death count being given by the Centre is no nowhere close to the real extent of damage, he added.
Earlier, in a series of tweets, Owaisi stated that families which have lost a dear one deserved to be counted. “The government’s statistics on coronavirus deaths is not validated,” he alleged
The Hyderabad MP refused to accept BJP was gaining ground in Telangana with leaders like Eatala Rajender joining it.