The BJP MP cited a Centre's note to the Maharashtra government in March 2021 which, he highlighted, had said that measures such as night curfews, weekend lockdowns have a very limited impact on containing or suppressing the transmission.
Varun Gandhi also said he is a "revolutionary" leader and cannot see injustice being done to people.
MPs can pilot private members' bill in their personal capacity irrespective of their party affiliations. Since 1952, only about a dozen private members' bills have been passed.
BJP MP Varun Gandhi has been critical of the BJP government's handling of economic and employment issues without directly targeting the central dispensation.
On Saturday, UPTET candidates were holding a candle march demanding recruitment of teachers on vacant posts in Uttar Pradesh.
Varun Gandhi said the government is employing less than before in every sector be it defence, police, railways or education.
In a letter to the prime minister, the MP from Pilibhit in poll-bound Uttar Pradesh also asked him to take action against Union minister Ajay Kumar Mishra 'Teni' for the violence in Lakhmipur Kheri without taking his name.
Varun Gandhi has demanded a legal guarantee for the minimum support price, also one of the demands of farmer unions protesting against three farm laws.
Without making a direct attack, the BJP leader has been critical of the government's handling of agri issues of late and has also sympathised with the farmers protesting against the three farm laws.
Three people were killed and hundreds were marooned as torrential rains lashed Bareilly and Pilibhit districts over two days, officials had said on Wednesday.
Varun Gandhi shared a short clip of a speech of former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee from 1980 in which he warns the then Indira Gandhi government against repressing farmers and extends his support to them.
The BJP had recently announced its 80-member national executive with the likes of Varun Gandhi and Birender Singh, who have taken a sympathetic stand with farmers protesting against the farm laws, and Maneka Gandhi being among those replaced with a new crop of leaders.
Shiv Sena has backed BJP MP Varun Gandhi for his support to the farmers' movement, especially after the Lakhimpur Kheri incident.
Varun Gandhi said the struggle for justice in Lakhimpur Kheri is about the "cruel massacre of poor farmers in the face of an arrogant local power elite", and the issue has no religious connotations.
The MP, who had been with BJP for 17 years made the headlines earlier this week after he tweeted on the death of farmers in Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur Khiri. His mother, Maneka Gandhi, too, was excluded from the list of names announced by BJP president JP Nadda on Thursday.
This is the second video of the incident that Varun Gandhi has shared on social media in as many days while demanding immediate action against those responsible for the violence and death of eight people.
BJP's National Executive is a key deliberative body of the party which meets to discuss key issues facing the government and shapes the organisation's agenda.
The BJP leader who has tweeted the video is none other than Varun Gandhi, cousin of Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi who has been arrested by the Sitapur Police for violating Section 144 in Lakhimpur Kheri area.
Varun Gandhi said a murder case under IPC section 302 should be lodged against those involved in the death of farmers in Lakhimpur Kheri.
The minister's comments followed after 'Nathuram Godse Zindabad' has been trending on Twitter on the birth anniversary of the 'Father of the Nation'.
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