Rahul dares Delhi police ‘Arrest me too’, posts “offending” poster on his Twitter account
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Jairam Ramesh pasted the poster subsequent to his nameplate at his official residence reverse the Lodhi Garden.
Challenging the arrests of 24 individuals by Delhi police for posters that surfaced throughout the town questioning Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s resolution to donate vaccines to neighbouring international locations, former Congress president Rahul Gandhi posted the “offending” poster on his Twitter account daring the police to arrest him.
All the posters uniformly pose the query — “Modi ji humare bachon ka vaccine videsh kyon bhej diya?” (Why did you ship vaccines meant for our youngsters overseas?). Posting the poster, Mr Gandhi mentioned, “Arrest me too.”
Nearly six crore doses of vaccines have been despatched out to numerous international locations. So far, a little bit over 4 crore individuals have gotten each doses of vaccines in India and 14 crore folks have gotten a single dose as per the most recent numbers on the centralised vaccination web site — CoWin.
The individuals have been arrested beneath a hardly ever used legislation of “Prevention of Defacement of Property Act” and most of them have been launched on bail. “Celebrate, India is a free country. There is freedom of speech, except, when you ask a question of the Honourable Prime Minister,” senior Congress chief and former Home Minister P Chidambaram wrote on Twitter. He mentioned that the poster asks a easy query and earlier than the PM Modi might reply the Delhi Police has answered with arrest.
Meanwhile, Congress Chief Whip in Rajya Sabha, Jairam Ramesh pasted the poster subsequent to his nameplate at his official residence reverse the Lodhi Garden.
“I am shocked and stunned. May vehemently disagree but under what authority, what law, what power can you arrest those who put up posters,” Rajya Sabha MP Abhishek Manu Singhvi mentioned. He mentioned that this “smacks of a lawless state gone amuck.”
Later in a press convention, Congress spokesperson Pawan Khera mentioned that who else does one pose the query to if not the federal government. The vaccine coverage was centralised, it was the union authorities that held the preliminary negotiations with the producers, he mentioned. And it was additionally their resolution, once they believed that India had already received its warfare in opposition to COVID to cart off the vaccines to different nations.
“Narendra Modi wanted to be known as the vaccine guru of the world. So it is obvious that only one person — Mr Modi — alone can answer these questions,” Mr Khera mentioned. He mentioned that the vaccine coverage was stored centralised until the state of affairs was in management. As quickly because it went out of hand, the centre handed over the facility to the states to barter on their very own with the producers. “You can’t have centralised decision making and decentralised responsibility,” he mentioned. The vaccine diplomacy was all for constructing Mr Modi’s picture alone, Mr Khera mentioned.
The BJP is now attempting to disown their very own marketing campaign of “vaccine diplomacy”. BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra not too long ago claimed that just one crore doses out of the six, went as an help for the neighbouring international locations; the remaining have been a part of contractual obligations of the 2 producers — Bharat Biotech and Serum Institute with different nation, about which the federal government couldn’t have achieved something.
CPI (M) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury in the meantime identified that the vaccination drive has slowed down. “As the pandemic surges relentlessly claiming countless lives, vaccination drive is in shambles. Since mid April vaccination dropped significantly, May 14 saw 18.7 lakh compared to 34.7 lakh, April 14. Start free universal mass vaccination now,” he tweeted.
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