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Rahul Gandhi says need lockdown exit strategy, financial package urgently

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The government needs to spell out a strategy to exit the national lockdown, immediately announce a financial package and implement a decentralised approach to deal with the socio-economic fallout of the covid-19 pandemic, former Congress president Rahul Gandhi said on Friday.

Gandhi's comments come at a time when states have been demanding a relief and stimulus package to mitigate the economic damage caused by the most stringent lockdown in the world.

India is now in the third phase of the nationwide lockdown, which started on 25 March. “We have been 45 days in lockdown now and we are beginning to run in a little bit of problem.

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