‘Pilot who pressed eject button during emergency’: Priyanka’s dig at PM Modi over India’s transfer to import Covid vaccines

Congress chief Priyanka Gandhi Vadra attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday over the federal government’s dealing with of the coronavirus pandemic, describing him because the “pilot who had his photo plastered on boarding passes only to press the eject button during an emergency”.
The Congress-led opposition has been criticising the federal government over its dealing with of the pandemic and the vaccination drive, whereas the Centre has maintained that its well timed steps have been instrumental in combating Covid-19.

“Shocking that while COVID ravages India, from being a vaccine exporter, it has been compelled to become a vaccine importer undoing 70 years of government effort,” Priyanka Gandhi tweeted.
“@narendramodi: the pilot who had his photo plastered on boarding passes only to press the eject button during an emergency,” the Congress basic secretary mentioned in one other tweet.

Shocking that whereas COVID ravages India, from being a vaccine exporter, it has been compelled to turn out to be a vaccine importer undoing 70 years of govt effort.@narendramodi : the pilot who had his photograph plastered on boarding passes solely to press the eject button throughout an emergency
— Priyanka Gandhi Vadra (@priyankagandhi) April 17, 2021
There was no fast response from BJP leaders.
Priyanka Gandhi additionally confused the significance of RT-PCR testing to fight Covid-19 unfold in Uttar Pradesh.
“In UP, infection has increased seven times in 10 days. Now, it is also moving towards villages. There is a terrible shortage of tests in cities and RT-PCR is less than half of them while the rest are antigen. One has to wait for testing in Lucknow, Noida, Ghaziabad, Benaras, Allahabad also. If the state is to be saved, do maximum RT-PCR testing,” she mentioned.

Priyanka Gandhi’s assault on the federal government got here amid a steep rise in coronavirus instances within the nation with over two lakh new infections day by day within the final three days.