‘First they ignore you…then you win’: Rahul Gandhi takes a dig at Centre over fast-tracking approval for overseas vaccines

Senior Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday took a dig on the Centre over its choice to fast-track approval for overseas vaccines. Gandhi, who had been earlier criticised by BJP for his demand to fast-track extra vaccines, tweeted, “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”

“First they ignore youthen they laugh at youthen they fight you,then you win.”#vaccine pic.twitter.com/FvfmTjJ7bl
— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) April 14, 2021
The senior Congress chief had earlier written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi demanding that approval of vaccines is fast-tracked. He additionally demanded that a direct moratorium is placed on the export of vaccines and everyone seems to be made eligible to get the jab.
Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, in a letter to the prime minister, had additionally requested him to permit emergency use of all of the vaccine candidates having required clearances.

In a big shift in its coverage on regulatory approvals for overseas producers to commercially market their Covid-19 vaccines within the nation, the federal government Tuesday introduced it could not implement the pre-condition of conducting part 2 and three scientific trials in India for these vaccines which were granted emergency approvals by the US, EU, UK and Japanese regulators, together with these listed by the WHO.
The transfer is critical as it could make accessible a number of vaccines, together with these made by Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson, in India with sure circumstances.

Coming down closely on Gandhi’s demand to fast-track vaccine approvals, Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad had tweeted, “After failing as a part-time politician, has Rahul Gandhi switched to full time lobbying? First he lobbied for fighter plane companies by trying to derail India’s acquisition programme. Now he is lobbying for pharma companies by asking for arbitrary approvals for foreign vaccines.”

Prasad additional wrote, “Fighting a pandemic is not a one trick game. Apart from vaccination, there needs to be adequate focus on testing, tracing & treating. Rahul Gandhi’s problem is that he doesn’t understand all this and his ignorance is compounded by his arrogance.”

After failing as a part-time politician, has Rahul Gandhi switched to full time lobbying? First he lobbied for fighter airplane corporations by making an attempt to derail India’s acquisition programme. Now he’s lobbying for pharma corporations by asking for arbitrary approvals for overseas vaccines
— Ravi Shankar Prasad (@rsprasad) April 9, 2021
India’s transfer to ask overseas vaccines to use for approval now could be a big shift in its coverage on regulatory approvals for overseas producers to commercially market their Covid vaccines within the nation.

The transfer, which comes at a time when vaccine shortages are being reported from numerous components of the nation, might even see Pfizer reapply for emergency use authorization and likewise the US-based Moderna getting into the market.