Gujarat chief minister Vijay Rupani walked away when asked over the past one month about the deaths of babies in state hospitals. Rupani, who was addressing a group of reporters on the sidelines of an event in Vadodara, ignored the question on infants' death and chose to walk away.

According to reports, a total of 179 children have died in two government hospitals in Rajkot and Jamnagar in Gujarat in December 2019.