PM should have consulted states before imposing lockdown: Bhupesh Baghel

Congress President Sonia Gandhi had in her address to the Congress Working Committee on Thursday termed the 21-day nationwide lockdown "unplanned"

Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel on Thursday said that if Prime Minister Narendra Modi had consulted with states before imposing the lockdown, then it would have been in the national interest.

"Congress has raised issues of national interest only, @AmitShah Ji. If the Prime Minister had consulted with the states before imposing the lockdown, then it would have been in the national interest. In the federal structure, suggestions and questions both are important," Baghel tweeted.

"Whatever BJP says and does is in the national interest and whatever Congress says, that is politics? Whatever Congress President Sonia Gandhi Ji has said, has been