“Refer To Election Time table”: Rahul Gandhi On BJP ‘Loose Vaccine’ Promise
Rahul Gandhi slammed the BJP for saying unfastened vaccines for handiest poll-bound Bihar.
New Delhi:
Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Thursday joined the uproar towards the BJP’s marketing campaign promise of a unfastened COVID-19 vaccine in Bihar, suggesting that the ruling party was once brazenly tying get right of entry to to the life-saving drug to elections.
GOI simply introduced India’s Covid get right of entry to technique.
Kindly consult with the state-wise election time table to grasp when will you get it, together with a hoard of false guarantees.
— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) October 22, 2020
Mr Gandhi’s remark got here amid a spiralling controversy over Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday who made the “unfastened coronavirus vaccination for all” promise in Bihar forward of subsequent week’s elections.
“Once a COVID-19 vaccine is to be had for manufacturing at a mass scale, each particular person in Bihar gets unfastened vaccination. That is the primary promise discussed in our ballot manifesto,” Ms Sitharaman mentioned lately, saying the BJP’s manifesto.
There’s a world race to provide a coronavirus vaccine and trials are on in many nations, together with India. However that is the primary time {that a} vaccine, particularly one this is paintings in growth, is an election promise.
“What about non-BJP dominated states? Indians who did not vote BJP won’t get unfastened Covid vaccine?” – tweeted Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), elevating a query that many flagged on social media.
Union Minister of State for Well being Ashwini Chaubey, who’s these days in Bihar, was once requested the query. “The corona vaccine is being made internationally. When it’s able, now we have ready an elaborate plan on distributing the vaccine, who will likely be given choice and so forth… Each state will likely be given unfastened coronavirus vaccine,” the minister informed journalists.
The rationalization didn’t cork the deluge of complaint on social media, with some the usage of the hashtag #vaccineelectionism.
Congress MP and previous union minister Shashi Tharoor tweeted: “Tum mujhe vote do primary tumhe vaccine (Give me votes, I will be able to provide you with vaccine)… what appalling cynicism! Will the Election Fee rap her and her shameless govt at the knuckles?”
Nationwide Convention chief Omar Abdullah referred to as it blatant populism. “Will BJP be paying for those vaccines from the party treasury? If it is coming from the federal government treasury then how can Bihar get unfastened vaccines whilst the remainder of the rustic has to pay? There’s such a lot improper with this blatant populism that shamefully exploits COVID fears,” the previous J&Ok leader minister wrote.
