Congress refuses to implement Covid protocol in Bharat Jodo Yatra as suggested by govt

On Wednesday, December 21, Congress chief and Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot claimed that the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) is alarmed by seeing the recognition of the Bharat Jodo Yatra. Gehlot mentioned this after Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya penned a letter to him and Congress chief Rahul Gandhi cautioning them within the wake of accelerating COVID instances in China. 

“The Bharat Jodo Yatra has had an impact on the country. I saw the letter from Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya, and they are scared,  we can see their condition. The BJP is in a state of disarray. A few days ago, JP Nadda’s Aakrosh rally in the state failed miserably,” Gehlot mentioned.

Notably, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya had urged the Congress leaders to observe commonplace Covid pointers as new instances of the pandemic are rising in a number of international locations, together with China the place it has reached alarming ranges. Mandaviya in his letter acknowledged that the association of masks and sanitisers must be achieved and all of the Covid protocols ought to strictly be adopted. Besides, solely these individuals who have been vaccinated must be allowed to take part within the Yatra. 

Mandaviya additional steered that in case it’s not potential to observe the Covid protocols, Congress ought to take into account suspending the Yatra in wake of a “public health emergency.”

Union Health Minister’s letter to Rahul Gandhi (Image through ANI)

Instead of taking Minister Mandaviya’s letter severely and performing accordingly, Gehlot and different Congress leaders are politicising a critical well being difficulty like Covid. Rajasthan CM mentioned that “lakhs of people are joining the Yatra. Modi government is scared and that is why they are writing such politically motivated letters.”

Congress MP Adhir Ranjan Choudhary requested if PM Modi adopted Covid protocols throughout the Gujarat meeting elections. “Mandaviya is diverting the general public’s consideration. 

Notably, Mandaviya has clarified that it was after Himachal Pradesh CM Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu examined optimistic after attending Bharat Jodo Yatra that he determined to jot down a letter to warning Congress leaders.

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It is pertinent to say that Congress has a historical past of politicising the pandemic and creating vaccine hesitancy. 

Last 12 months, when India was struggling by way of the second of the Covid pandemic, Congress and the left-liberal ecosystem tried to derail India’s covid vaccination drive. Be it concentrating on the native vaccine producers or discrediting India-made covid vaccine, Covaxin developed and manufactured by Bharat Biotech. 

Politicizing the transfer Congress even trivialized the duvet vaccination drive altogether. Taking the ‘vaccine politics’ a degree up, Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav known as Covaxin as ‘BJP’s vaccine’.

PM Modi, in his speech in Rajya Sabha, had again then slammed politicians concerned in fuelling vaccine hesitancy in India.

PM Modi had mentioned, “A few leaders of some political parties have shown immaturity in the last 2 years which has disappointed the nation. We have seen how games have been played due to political selfishness. Campaigns were led against Indian vaccines.”

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— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) February 8, 2022

In June 2021, Congress chief Gaurav Pandhi shared a doc on Twitter claiming that Bharat Biotech’s COVAXIN comprises new child calf serum obtained after slaughtering 20-day-old calves. In a tweet, he wrote, In an RTI response, the Modi Govt has admitted that COVAXIN consists of Newborn Calf Serum… which is a portion of clotted blood obtained from lower than 20 days younger cow-calves, after slaughtering them. THIS IS HEINOUS! This info ought to have been made public earlier than.” 

Ministry of Health again then had refuted the claims of Congress chief that Covaxin contained new child calf serum. In a press launch, MoH had clarified that Covaxin doesn’t include new child calf serum in any respect. 

In January this 12 months, Karnataka Congress chief, DK Shivakumar had known as Corona as “BJP’s creation.” Just like Ashok Gehlot right this moment ignored the menace posed by Covid, Shivakumar had again then mentioned that he’ll proceed along with his padyatra to expedite Mekedatu reservoir undertaking saying that “there is no covid in the country and that it is all created by BJP as it is scared of his padyatra.”

In 2020, Congress chief Harjit Bhatti had in a tweet claimed that healthcare staff in Assam Medical College had been “forced” to cowl themselves in plastic baggage. He claimed that these plastic baggage are those that are used to hold biomedical waste. He had alleged that there was scarcity of private safety equipments (PPEs) in Assam Medical College.

Bhatti’s allegations had been amplified by the ‘liberals’ like Rohini Singh, Vinod Kapri and others. Bhatti, Kapri and others nevertheless, quietly deleted their deceptive tweets after Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma known as out their lies. 

The Congress celebration has been on the helm of all of it, from politicizing the pandemic to fueling vaccine hesitancy, trivializing indigenous vaccines, and spreading misinformation about Covid.