Rahul Gandhi, the Congress leader, took a swipe at the Modi government on Sunday, saying that the government is fighting for a blue tick while leaving people to become “aatmanirbhar” (self-reliant) to get Covid vaccines. The BJP retaliated by telling the Congress leader to get off social media and work on the ground. The party also asked him to speak with the governors of states where Congress is in power about alleged scams and irregularities in the Covid vaccination program.
Gandhi’s comments come a day after outcry over Twitter’s removal of the “blue tick” emblem from the personal accounts of Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu and top RSS officials, including Mohan Bhagwat, only to have it restored later.
“The Modi government is fighting for the blue tick. If you want a Covid vaccine, then be self-reliant,” He expressed this in a sarcastic Hindi tweet using the hashtag “#Priorities.”
BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra, in a jab at Gandhi, stated that doing politics on Twitter is his (Gandhi’s) “most important subject” and “largest platform.” Patra stated that the Modi government has done a commendable job in driving such a large-scale vaccination campaign and delivering free rations to the underprivileged.
Meanwhile, after a Delhi government hospital advised its nurses not to chat in Malayalam, the former Congress president talked about ending language discrimination. The hospital order is no longer in effect.
“Malayalam is as Indian as any other Indian language. Stop language discrimination,” Gandhi stated in another tweet.
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, the Congress national secretary, expressed her worry and posted an order from the Govind Ballabh Pant Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research instructing nursing employees to communicate solely in Hindi and English, or face significant consequences.
In another tweet, Priyanka claimed that between September 2020 and January 2021, the Modi government slashed oxygen beds by 36%, ICU beds by 46%, and ventilator beds by 28%.
“Is the health of Indian citizens less important than the Central Vista project?” She said that the government had designated the project as a critical service and that employees were working around the clock to complete it by 2023.
