‘Movid Pandemic’: Rahul Gandhi attacks PM Modi over second Covid wave

TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ The Congress has accused the Centre of abject failure in protecting the lives of people and urged it to follow the suggestions of experts by declaring a national lockdown in the wake of rising cases of the novel coronavirus infection.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for “not utilising the vaccination budget”.”Vaccine budget- underutilized. Human life- undervalued. Because PM’s ego- overinflated,” he tweeted, tagging a media report which claimed that only Rs 4,744 crore has been utilised from the vaccine budget of Rs 35,000 crore.

In another tweet in Hindi on GST on COVID-19 vaccines, Gandhi alleged, “People’s lives may be lost, but PM’s tax extortion should not”. In yet another tweet, he said, “The Movid pandemic” and tagged a small video titled “Modi hai to mumkin hai” which showed a rising graph of COVID-19 cases and a declining graph depicting the vaccination plunge.