Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Sunday took a swipe on the Centre, saying the Modi authorities is preventing for a blue tick and other people must grow to be self-reliant for getting Covid vaccines. His remarks got here a day after outrage over the removing of ‘blue tick’ badge from the private accounts of Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu and RSS high functionaries together with Mohan Bhagwat, by Twitter, solely to revive it later. Twitter mentioned as per guidelines, the blue badge and verified standing may very well be mechanically faraway from an account whether it is incomplete or inactive for six months. “The Modi authorities is preventing for the blue tick. If you need a Covid vaccine, then be self-reliant,” he said in a tweet in Hindi, using the hashtag “#Priorities”.
In one other tweet, he talked about stopping language discrimination after a Delhi authorities hospital requested nurses to not converse in Malayalam. The hospital order has been revoked. “Malayalam is as Indian as some other Indian language. Stop language discrimination,” he mentioned.
Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra also shared the concern and posted the order of the Govind Ballabh Pant Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research warning the nursing personnel to use only Hindi and English for communication, else serious action will be taken. “This order is a violation of the basic values of our country. It is racist, discriminatory and utterly wrong,” she mentioned in a tweet in Malayali, saying Malayali nurses are risking their lives in Covid instances to save lots of folks.
“This order can be an insult. We owe them a debt of gratitude and respect. It must be withdrawn as quickly as doable and an apology must be revealed,” she demanded. In another tweet, Vadra alleged that the Modi government reduced oxygen beds by 36 percent, ICU beds by 46 percent, ventilator beds by 28 percent between September 2020 and January 2021. “Is the health of Indian citizens less important than the Central Vista project,” she requested, alleging that the federal government has declared the venture as a necessary service with folks working day and evening to finish it by 2023. “When each knowledgeable within the nation, the Parliamentary Committee on Health and their very own Sero-surveys warned them that further beds could be wanted for an inevitable second wave,” she said as part of her “ZimmedarKaun” (Who is accountable) marketing campaign.
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