Supriya Sule mocks DRDO, makes pretend claims on vaccines in Parliament

Supriya Sule, Lok Sabha Member of Parliament from the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) made false statements relating to vaccine manufacturing and ridiculed the Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO) on the fourth day of Parliament’s Budget Session on Thursday. A video of her talking within the session was shared on Twitter by one other NCP MP Priyanka Chaturvedi.
.@supriya_sule ji on DRDO – Defence Research & Development Organisation lowered to creating masks and sanitisers& on vaccines..🔥 pic.twitter.com/TajRymurYs— Priyanka Chaturvedi🇮🇳 (@priyankac19) February 3, 2022
Supriya Sule mocked DRDO, including that regardless of being the main scientific establishment, they’re now manufacturing masks and sanitisers. Sule went on to say that the vaccines are made by the Serum Institute of India, not by the federal government. She clarified that this isn’t what is supposed by the phrase “Make in India.”
She was, nevertheless, factually incorrect in all of her feedback, as quite a few people on social media identified. Prominent scientist Anand Ranganathan took to Twitter and wrote “Ms Sule is factually wrong on ALL counts. 1. She mocks DRDO. Fact: DRDO invented novel UV & mist sanitisers 2. She says govt hasn’t made the vaccine. Fact: ICMR has made Covaxin along with BB 3. She says SII has made vaccines. Fact: Oxford, not SII has made Covishield.”
Priyanka ji, Ms Sule is factually incorrect on ALL counts. 1. She mocks DRDO. Fact: DRDO invented novel UV & mist sanitisers 2. She says govt hasn’t made vaccine. Fact: ICMR has made Covaxin alongwith BB 3. She says SII has made vaccine. Fact: Oxford not SII has made Covishield. WDTT https://t.co/VVUn9ZlKAU— Anand Ranganathan (@ARanganathan72) February 3, 2022
Another Twitter person named Sagar (@sssaaagar) identified the achievements of DRDO in a tweet. He wrote, “DRDO made mask, Sanitisers, OOG of Tejas repurposed to O2 plant, 2-DG for fighting Covid, while they made indigenous AIP, HSTDV, Launched slew of missiles etc. MH state government had 1 job, Convert Haffkines lab into BSL3 for Covaxin prodn. 9 months after approval is still zero.”
DRDO made masks, Sanitisers, OOG of Tejas repurposed to O2 plant, 2-DG for combating Covid, whereas they made indigenous AIP, HSTDV, Launched slew of missiles and many others. MH state authorities had 1 job, Convert Haffkines lab into BSL3 for Covaxin prodn. 9 months after approval nonetheless zero https://t.co/Ed1Mm0sGDS— Sagar (@sssaaagar) February 3, 2022
It ought to be remembered that the DRDO has been a benchmark group for a few years. Today, the DRDO is a community of greater than 50 laboratories devoted to the event of defence applied sciences, life sciences, coaching, info techniques, and agriculture. DRDO has performed a serious position through the Covid-19 pandemic. DRDO has labored diligently at any time when it was mandatory, from constructing a 500-bed specialised Covid facility in Delhi to creating the efficient drugs 2-DG for the therapy of coronavirus an infection. The DRDO’s Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Allied Sciences (INMAS) in New Delhi collaborated with Hyderabad-based pharma large Dr Reddy’s Laboratories to provide 2-deoxy-D-glucose or 2-DG.