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The Modi government is in the process of formulating a post Covid-19 strategy.“We have to give importance to the economy as well as continue the fight against covid-19," Prime Minister Narendra Modi said this week addressing his fourth videoconference with chief ministers. The economic shock is likely to be more severe for India because the economy was already on the slide before the pandemic outbreak.

A political crisis is unfolding in Brazil, with far-right President Jair Bolsonaro facing potential impeachment charges after a complaint raised against him by former justice minister Sergio Moro.

May 1, 2020 is being observed by the trade unions throughput the world in deadful global scenario when the workers in the capitalist and developing countries are losing jobs posing a big threat to their livelihood.

Despite claims of high level monitoring, there have been several complaints against alleged mismanagement of quarantine centres in Uttar Pradesh.

After nearly 1,400 students from Haryana and Assam left Kota for their home towns by buses on Friday and over 2,000 from in Rajasthan are scheduled to leave in the evening, the students from Bihar enrolled with the coaching institutes have turned desperate to come back to their homes.

When the entire country was under a total lockdown due to the corona virus endemic, something happened in the Gadchinchale village in the Palghar district of Maharashtra that soon became a casus belli for the Hindutvavadis. It blew into a first class political battle between the Congress and the BJP. On April 16, two Hindu sadhus along with their driver were lynched by a vigilante group. It was a sequel to the charged atmosphere created by the rumour that thieves were active in the area. The sadhus and their driver were mistaken as thieves and killed. When he police arrived at the scene, the irate mob turned on them and beat them up. Four policemen and a police officer were injured.

The West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankar’s tweets, read alongside his stand on the inter-ministerial central teams (IMCTs)visiting Bengal to assess COVID19 situation complaining that the IMCTs were not given access to facilities or officials in the state for the purpose of assessment, are a dead giveaway. With the central government also having accused the West Bengal state government of not supporting its endeavours despite an obligation to do so, Governor Dhankarpretty much spells out that he is not interested in sticking to the constitutional imperative to function within the digits, dotted by the state government ‘ministry’ during the debate in the Constitutional Assembly.

It has been more than a month since the strict national lockdown has been in place and there are all indications that exit strategy is likely to be a staggered one, as it will take a long time to come back to normal. Health Minister Harsh Vardhan has indicated that the Covid-19 strategy will continue to remain what it has been till now. “Look for them, test them, isolate them, and treat them,” is the current strategy.

Two predecessors of ’Boris Johnson’s had to bow out of the office of prime minister as they could not come up to the expectation of the Britons and also failed to keep their promises made to the people. Theresa May’s premiership was wrecked by Brexit, and Gordon Brown was eclipsed by the financial crisis.

Earlier this month, Sidharth Varadarajan, one of the leading journalistic voices against the ruling government, was served with an FIR based on a retracted tweet. He was asked to appear 650 km away in the middle of the central lockdown due to coronavirus to answer his charges. Similar actions were seen based on a single tweet (or rather retweet) against other prominent voices of dissent, such as lawyer Prashant Bhushan and former civil servant Kannan Gopinathan. But these events are not isolated incidents. The ruling government has been carrying out a systematic suppression of dissent at a scale not witnessed in recent years in India.