India, July 18 -- Above national average, highest doubling rate, rising deaths push state to third spot.

Bengaluru: On Wednesday, a man accompanied by his wife and two kids walked up to Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa's home office Krishna and declared he was Covid positive and that hours after waiting for an ambulance, he didn't have any option but to walk to CM's house seeking help. Baffled, the CMO staff immediately arranged for an ambulance and sent him to a nearby Covid care centre.

On multiple fronts, the BJP government is facing wrath from all quarters. The state government had received pat on its back for 4Ts-tracing, tracking, testing and treating. Exactly a month later the state government has failed on all the four fronts-It...