As many states across the country are witnessing acute shortage of covid19 vaccines and many health centres lying closed due to the unavailability of the same, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday attacked the Centre's vaccine strategy and alleged it's akin to demonetisation.
Congress leader took to twitter and in Hindi said (loosely translated), "Union government's vaccine strategy is not less than the demonetisation… common people will queue up… will bear the loss of wealth, health and life… and at the end only a few corporates will get the benefit”.
The Congress had earlier also criticised the vaccine policy and said centre government miserably failed to combat the covid crisis. The Congress had alleged that the Union government is running away from its responsibilities and the modified vaccine policy will overburden the states and lead to profiteering but the Union government has finally acknowledged the problem of vaccine shortage and other deficiencies in the current vaccine policy.
"Under the
modified vaccine policy the Union government is running away from taking
responsibility; it overburdens the states, encourages vaccine manufacturers to
profiteer, and will worsen the inequality between states as well as between
poor and rich Indians. Nowhere in the world has any government left its
vaccination programme to be determined by the vagaries of market forces, and
for good reason," Chidambaram had said on Tuesday.