The former Congress president cited the differences in statements of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the government and the BJP on the anticipated vaccine.
Rahul Gandhi, the Congress leader and MP from Wayanad, attacked the centre over its statement that it had never spoken about inoculating everyone with the COVID-19 vaccine.
Taking to micro-blogging site Twitter, the former Congress president cited the differences in statements of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the government and the BJP on the anticipated vaccine for the COVID-19 as he asked: “exactly what does the prime minister stand by”.
“PM- Everyone will get vaccine. BJP in Bihar elections- Everyone in Bihar will get free vaccine. Now, GOI- Never said everyone will get vaccine. Exactly what does the PM stand by?” Mr Gandhi tweeted.
PM- Everyone will get vaccine.
BJP in Bihar elections- Everyone in Bihar will get free vaccine.
Now, GOI- Never said everyone will get vaccine.
Exactly what does the PM stand by?
— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) December 3, 2020
On Tuesday, the centre said there may not be a need to vaccinate the country’s entire population against COVID-19 if a critical mass of people are given a shot to break the chain of virus transmission. It also made it clear that it had never spoken about inoculating everyone.
“I just want to make this clear that the government has never spoken about vaccinating the entire country. It’s important that we discuss such scientific issues based on factual information only and then analyse it,” Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan had said.
The remarks by the health secretary came three days after rime Minister Narendra Modi visited the three key facilities that are working on a vaccine in Hyderabad, Ahmedabad and Pune. The visit was meant to help him get a “first-hand perspective of the preparations, challenges and roadmap in India’s endeavour to vaccinate its citizens”, said the prime minister’s office.
India recorded 35,551 new cases of coronavirus this morning, taking the country’s coronavirus case tally to 95.3 lakh. Up to 526 people also lost their lives to the highly infectious disease in the last 24 hours. With this, a total of 1,38,648 people in India have lost their lives to Covid-19 till now.
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