Manithaneya Makkal Katchi president M.H. Jawahirullah said here on Sunday that actor Rajinikanth would perhaps have not fallen at Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s feet if he had read Dr. Kafeel Khan’s book, The Gorakhpur Hospital Tragedy: A Doctor’s Memoir of a Deadly Hospital Crisis.
It deals with the death of 63 children and 18 adults at Baba Raghav Das Medical College’s Nehru Hospital at Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh after the hospital ran out of oxygen supply, and the doctor’s experiences of taking on the Chief Minister and eventually getting jailed.
At the launch of the book, translated into Tamil, Mr. Jawahirullah said: “Rajinikanth said he fell at his [Mr. Adityanath’s] feet because he was a yogi. But, had he read Dr. Kafeel Khan’s book, I doubt he would have fallen at his feet.” He said that the BJP partymen who say they are incorruptible should be exposed. “Whether it is [Prime Minister] Modi or Yogi, we should expose to the people that both are corrupt,” he said.
