To gain a state at the cost of the nation.

"Former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Kamal Nath on Sunday alleged that the Modi government delayed preventive measures against coronavirus only to ensure that his government was toppled in Bhopal, underlining that the lockdown was announced hours after Shivraj Singh Chouhan took oath as chief minister last month." "He said it was the reason why coronavirus had spread wide in the country and why MP was the worst hit with 46 health department officials, including the principal secretary, health, testing positive for the pandemic." Around 10 March, 22 Congress members of the legislative assembly (MLAs) in Madhya Pradesh (MP) resigned in support of Jyotiraditya Scindia who had lost his parliamentary seat, held by his father and grandmother before him, in the 2019 general election. The BJP, party of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, moved its MLAs to a luxury hotel ITC Grand Bharat in Gurugram in Haryana, while the Congress took its MLAs to Rajasthan, which has a Congress government. Scindia was apparently offered the post of deputy chief minister in MP but wanted to nominate someone else. On 12 March Scindia joined the BJP. On 19 March, the Supreme Court ordered Kamal Nath to face a vote in the Assembly. On 20 March, Kamal Nath resigned as chief minister of MP. On 23 March, Shivraj Singh Chouhan of the BJP took oath as the chief minister, vowing to prove his majority in the assembly. On 24 March, Modi announced a nationwide lockdown for 21 days to combat the coronavirus epidemic. Assembly cannot meet in a lockdown so Chouhan is safe to consolidate. We Indians have a healthy disdain for our politicians, but still a charge of allowing an epidemic to spread and people to die is a new low. "I landed in Delhi on the night of March 18-19. By this time, the UK had seen a surge in its cases," wrote Geetanjali Kala who flew in from London. "But we were cleared to go home after thermal screening. Most Covid-19 infections in India have spread from people who have traveled from abroad and did not show symptoms at the time of being screened at the airport." "It is important to note that at no point at the airport, I or anyone else standing ahead of me in the queue was told to self-isolate at home." On 25 March, police were beating or humiliating anyone violating the lockdown order. Had the lockdown been organised over 7-10 days it would not have produced a panicked exodus of migrants from major cities back to their villages,  probably spreading of the virus all over India. "India's prime minister has asked for his country's forgiveness after imposing a sweeping lockdown that he said had hurt millions of poor people," reported BBC. General elections are not till 2024, so there is plenty of time for the economy to recover. Or to tank completely, with high inflation, high unemployment and a collapse in the rupee. We could all become poor.