New Delhi, May 6 (FN Agency) Refuting Indian numbers of Covid-19 deaths as issued by the World Health Organisation, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday said the data on the pandaemic by WHO was ‘inaccurate’ as it was not collected from verified sources. “The WHO Covid data is not authentic. It is inaccurate. The WHO has accepted it acquired the data from unverified source,” BJP national spokesperson Sambit Patra said at a press conference here over WHO’s latest report on the global toll of the coronavirus in which it claimed India witnessed 47 lakh deaths between 2020 and 2021. The BJP national spokesperson slammed the WHO module, saying: “The methods used by the WHO in the whole process are wrong.
There was inaccuracy in sourcing of data. The data was based on ‘mathematical’ model, India won’t accept it.” There is a robust system for registration of birth and death in the country, he added. Slamming Congress MP Rahul Gandhi for criticising Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the issue, Patra said, “Rahul Gandhi ji says science doesn’t lie, Modi does. This is an attempt to demean Modiji. It is very unfortunate.” He also categorically said that there should not be any politics over Covid deaths. “Politics over Covid death is very saddening. There should not be any fight between BJP and non-BJP ruled states,” Patra said. He also said that the way India fought Covid under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, was an example for the whole world.