NEW DELHI – India’s latest Covid-19 crisis has cast scrutiny on the government’s handling of the pandemic, with critics noting that super-spreading events such as election rallies and festivals should not have been allowed to go ahead. Even so, there has been no political fallout for the Modi government, said analysts.

On Saturday (April 17), Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a massive public rally in poll-bound West Bengal, where he remarked on the massive turnout even as India logged over 200,000 fresh cases.

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