Umesh Katti said, “I have no interest in wearing it so I didn’t. It’s my personal decision.”
Belagavi:
Amid rising COVID-19 cases and several government restrictions to contain its spread, Karnataka minister Umesh Katti, who was seen without a mask at a public event, refused to do so claiming that the Prime Minister Narendra Modi had said that “it is personal. Responsibility”.
“The Prime Minister has said that there will be no restrictions and it is the responsibility of an individual (wearing a face mask). Anyone who wants to wear a mask can do so. I am not interested in wearing it so I didn’t do it. It is. My personal decision,” the Karnataka minister told media persons on Tuesday.
BJP leader Umesh Katti is currently the Minister of Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs and Forests in the state.
His statement comes at a time when Karnataka and across the country witnessed a huge jump in COVID-19 cases.
Karnataka reported 41,457 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday. The positivity rate is 22.30 percent.
Recently, Karnataka Congress chief DK Shivakumar, after participating in the party’s padyatra, had reportedly refused to be tested for COVID-19, accusing the state government of letting him in front of an official. was trying to “infect” with COVID-19 by exposing someone who had tested positive. Virus.
“The additional district commissioner who came to test me last night has tested COVID-19 positive. He was sent to ensure that I get infected and test positive. The government calls me the primary contact of a COVID positive person. and that is why the officer was sent,” alleged Mr. Shivakumar.
“It may not be the chief minister’s view. But the health minister (K. Sudhakar) is capable of doing that,” he said.
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