Farhan Akhtar, Parineeti Chopra express shock at disposal of bodies in rivers, wants, “system to be held responsible”

Several Bollywood celebrities, including Farhan Akhtar, Pooja Bhatt, Jaaved Jaaferi, and Parineeti Chopra, expressed shock and demanded justice for bodies discovered in rivers.

Several Bollywood stars, including Farhan Akhtar and Parineeti Chopra, have expressed their outrage at the discovery of scores of bodies floating in the Ganga and other rivers, and have demanded accountability for the lapses that caused them.

Their reactions followed stories of bodies washing up along river banks in various parts of the region, including Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. In Bihar, for example, the state government reported that 71 bodies were discovered in the Ganga, increasing the possibility that they were Covid-19 patients.

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Farhan said in a tweet on Wednesday that the pandemic cannot be eradicated until the “system” is held responsible for its collapse. “The news of scores of bodies being discovered floating in rivers and washed up on its banks is absolutely heartbreaking. The virus will be defeated someday but there has to be accountability for these failures in the system. Until then, the pandemic chapter is not closed!” the actor-filmmaker wrote.

 

The pandemic seems to have brought out the worst in humanity, said Parineeti Chopra. “Those bodies floating in rivers were lives lived; they were somebody’s mother, daughter, father or son. How would you feel if you were on that riverbank and saw your mother floating by?? UNTHINKABLE. Monsters,” she wrote on the microblogging site.

Jaaved Jaaferi wrote, “This is tragic and horrific,” sharing a news article on the Covid-19 panic caused when 40 bodies were discovered on the banks of Ganga at Buxar earlier this week.

India saw a record rise in Covid-19 deaths with 4,205 fresh fatalities taking the country’s death toll to 2,54,197, while 3,48,421 new coronavirus infections were reported, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Wednesday.