Row Over Maharashtra BJP's COVID-19 Protest After Children Seen Without Masks | Read

The Shiv Sena-Congress-Nationalist Congress Party government in Maharashtra came under attack from the opposition BJP on Friday over its handling of the COVID-19 pandemic in the state. The BJP held a protest against the state government, alleging it had failed to contain the crisis. But the protest too triggered a controversy after pictures showed participating children without masks. Maharashtra has the highest number of COVID-19 patients in the county with Mumbai alone accounting for more than one-fifth of coronavirus cases in India.