Nepali Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba has urged the government to immediately announce relief package for low income people whose life and livelihood have been adversely affected from lockdown.

Lockdown was the best alternative to remain safe from COVID-19 infection spreading across the world, the former Prime Minster said, calling on the government to address the adversaries of weaker sections through special relief package.

Saying the government should make necessary arrangement of daily expenses for such people during lockdown, he mentioned that no one should be subject to victim of starvation even after being safe from coronavirus. —-