Several high profile exits from the Modi Cabinet, especially that of Dr Harsh Vardhan from the health ministry, drew derision from the Congress, which said it was an admission of the government's failure on multiple fronts.
Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram tweeted that the resignations of the Union Health Minister is "a candid confession that the Modi government has utterly failed in managing the pandemic".
Taking aims at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Chidambaram said: "There is a lesson for ministers in these resignations. If things go right the credit will go to the PM, if things go wrong the Minister will be the fall guy."
He added that is the price a Minister pays for implicit obedience and unquestioning subservience.