The Congress has put up large banners outdoors its state workplace right here asking Prime Minister Narendra Modi why he had exported anti-coronavirus vaccines meant for the youngsters of the nation to different nations. The black banners with the query addressed to the prime minister in daring, white letters grasp on the boundary wall of the Congress workplace right here within the coronary heart of town, drawing the eye of each passerby.
“Modi ji, Hamare bacchon ki vaccine videsh kyon bhej diya? (Modi ji, why did you send the vaccine meant for our children to foreign countries?) read the banners which carry the names of Pradesh Congress president Pritam Singh and the party’s city unit president Lal Chand Sharma. Similar banners came up recently in Delhi prompting authorities to arrest those responsible for putting them up.
The Delhi Police has registered 25 FIRs and arrested as many people under sections 188 (disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant) of the IPC and other relevant sections for allegedly pasting the posters in several parts of the city amid the coronavirus-induced lockdown. The Aam Aadmi Party had owned up to putting up posters in many parts of Delhi criticising the prime minister for the shortage of vaccines.
Congress leaders led by Rahul Gandhi had also slammed the police action and dared the government to arrest them for raising questions on the export of vaccines. They had changed their profile pictures on Twitter with the poster asking why COVID vaccines were sent abroad.
When asked what if similar action was initiated against them, Congress leaders here said they were not afraid of anything. “Putting these hanging the banners behind bars is not going to suppress the questions being requested by everybody,” Mahanagar Congress president Lal Chand Sharma said.
“The Modi authorities owes an evidence to the entire nation. It should reply why it despatched six crore anti COVID vaccines overseas once they weren’t sufficient for our personal necessities,” he mentioned.
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