Congress in action mode post Gorakhpur tragedy

Struggling to keep itself afloat in Uttar Pradesh after being decimated in the Assembly polls, the issue of alleged oxygen shortage at a Gorakhpur hospital seems to have galvanised the Congress.

The Congress grabbed the opportunity by being the first opposition party to reach ground zero the very next day after the death of children in the BRD Medical College hospital hogged media headlines.

The sudden buzz in the Congress camp, however, did not go down well with the ruling party, with none other than Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath training his guns at Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi, telling the "yuvraj sitting in Delhi" that the eastern UP town was not a "picnic spot".

However, making it clear that the party was not raising the issue with elections in mind, Congress spokesperson Dwijendra Tripathi told

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