{"id":9035,"date":"2020-03-25T17:17:07","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T11:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.22.110.190\/english\/?p=9035"},"modified":"2021-01-05T03:09:01","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T21:39:01","slug":"prashant-kishor-says-21-days-lockdown-a-bit-too-long-blames-shaky-preparedness-of-the-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/prashant-kishor-says-21-days-lockdown-a-bit-too-long-blames-shaky-preparedness-of-the-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"Prashant Kishor says 21-days lockdown \u201ca bit too long\u201d, blames \u201cshaky preparedness\u201d of the Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Poll strategist Prashant Kishor on Wednesday questioned the Centre on its decision to impose 21-day lockdown in the country to handle the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) situation. He said the lockdown \u201cmight be a bit too long\u201d, adding that \u201cthis is the price one pays for being behind the curve\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Kishor wrote on his Twitter handle that \u201cWith the shaky preparedness to deal with the #CovidCrisis and very little to safeguard the poor, we could be staring at some tough days ahead&#8221;. Kishor is poll strategist for Trinamool Congress led by Mamata Banerjee. He recently resigned from the Nitish Kumar led Janata Dal United after a fallout with the Bihar chief minister over the Centre&#8217;s implementation of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and National Register of Citizens (NRC).<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday evening announced a 21-day lockdown all over India to check the spread of COVID-19. He said that such a step was essential at this stage. The infection which took more time to spread initially, spreads at a faster rate in the subsequent stages, the PM said.<\/p>\n<p>The number of people who tested positive for COVID-19 in the country is 512. So far, 40 people have been treated and discharged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kishor is poll strategist for Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":9036,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49,92,35,46],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9035","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nation","8":"tag-mamata-banerjee","9":"tag-narendra-modi","10":"tag-prashant-kishor","11":"tag-trinamool-congress"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9035"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=9035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}