Delhi’s deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia on Friday, August 20,  said Lieutenant Governor  Anil Baijal has once again ruled out the Delhi government’s request for approval to set up an expert committee to investigate instances of deaths caused by shortage of oxygen in Delhi during the last wave of the Covid pandemic in April.

CM Sisodia in a video press briefing on Friday remarked as follows:  “It is irrefutable that there was an oxygen crisis across several states, including Delhi, during the Covid-19 wave in April-May ...and it needs to be investigated... But the L-G has once again refused to give approval for setting up an expert committee to investigate death caused by oxygen shortage”

He went on to say, “While the Centre is collecting data from states on deaths because of oxygen shortage, they are not letting states investigate such deaths. It only shows that the Centre is trying to run away from the issue to hide its own mismanagement, which led to the oxygen crisis in the first place.”

Dismissing Sisodia’s claims as “misleading”, a senior official in the L-G office said: “The statements made by the Deputy CM are misleading. Neither the L-G nor the Government of India has said that deaths due to oxygen shortage should not be probed.

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