New Delhi: AICC Chief Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday suggested five points to Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the fight against the Covid- 19.

She wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, she said that cancel the “self-indulgent” Rs 20,000 crore “beautification project” in the heart of Delhi. She also said suspend foreign tours of bureaucrats and Ministers. She also recommended to stop all kinds of advertisements to the news channels, digital and print medias for a period of two years.

Sonia Gandhi in her letter urged the Government to suspend the Rs 20,000 crore “Central Vista” project. “At a time like this, such an outlay seems self-indulgent to say the least. I am certain that Parliament can function comfortably within the existing historical buildings”.

The money, she said, could instead be used to build new hospital infrastructure and diagnostics besides better equipping frontline Covid-19 workers. Apparently referring to the salary cuts, the Congress chief urged the Government to make a “proportionate reduction of 30 per cent” in its own expenditure and use the funds to help migrant workers and others in the unorganized sector.

She said “all foreign visits” should be put on hold. “The amount (which is around Rs 393 crores for just the Prime Minister and Union Cabinet’s trips in the last five years) can be unutilized extensively in measures to combat Covid-19,” she remarked.

The AICC Chief also recommended that all the money under the “PM Cares” fund be transferred to the Prime Minister’s National Relief Fund to “ensure efficiency, transparency, accountability and audit”. She called it a “waste of effort and resources” to have and create two separate silos for the distribution of funds, pointing out that Rs 3,800 crore was lying unutilized in the PM’s relief fund.