Overview
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi posted public advisories on May 27 urging hydration, avoiding peak sun, watching for heat‑exhaustion and helping vulnerable people and animals.
- Hours after Modi's posts on May 27, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge posted on X accusing the BJP of causing 'BJP‑sponsored inflation' and saying ordinary people are 'sweating it out'.
- The India Meteorological Department has warned of heatwave to severe heatwave conditions across northern and central India with temperatures topping 45°C, underpinning the urgent safety messages.
- Delhi has activated its Heatwave Action Plan 2026 with distribution of over one million ORS packets, mobile heat relief vans, school water‑bell systems and water points for animals.
- News coverage frames the exchange as political sparring that links an acute public‑health emergency to long‑running criticism of the government's handling of inflation rather than as a new central policy response to prices.