‘people should be optimistic’: rss stand on second covid wave

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“Instead of fear, there should be optimism in people to deal with this pandemic. The media of course needs to report, but then the morale of people should not be affected. Therefore the role


of the media is to not scare people right now and create positivity.” When asked if the Sangh had started work in response to criticism that it had been missing in action, Ambekar said,


“The Sangh is always working. It does not work based on reactions or orders from people. We worked last year as well. Depending on the situation in states Sangh is swinging into action. This


is the only way the Sangh functions.” Among the twelve activities that the Sangh claims to have begun doing is provide isolation centres, giving food to people, aiding hospital staff in


non-medical work in government hospitals, counselling the patients, setting up of local helpline numbers and plasma donation drives. He said the work had started in different states in


different times, as the number of COVID cases kept rising. “In Delhi, the work has been on for about a month when it comes to giving food to people, and the helpline number has been on since


the last 15 days. This helpline had been discontinued earlier when the cases had dropped. Similarly, we are responding to states according to the situation.”