Nationalist Congress Party's state president and water resources minister Jayant Patil says he gets goose bumps whenever Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the nation. No wonder, then, that he blamed the PM's 8 pm 'lockdown' announcement for adding to the chaos that the country had already landed in because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Patil was at his home in Mumbai glued to the TV on Tuesday night. "The PM didn't mention clearly about the availability of essentials in his address, forcing people to act as if there was no tomorrow. People flocked to grocery shops and supermarkets thinking the PM has announced an extreme measure because there was something serious that they didn't know of," Patil told mid-day.

Patil also recalled his own experience of going out to fetch groceries that night. "My wife called our cook in Mumbai from Islampur to ask about the grocery stock at home. The cook told her we didn't have enough for the next 21 days. So, I told my son to accompany me to the shops in Malabar Hill. We drove out and somehow managed something from two-three shops. If an announcement made at odd hours could do this to me, imagine what it did to the people who didn't have any means of transport and shops around them, and most importantly shortage of money. He cannot make announcements every time he feels like it," he said.