The Bharatiya Janata Party on Sunday hit out at the Congress for raising questions about the efficacy of Bharat Biotech’s coronavirus vaccine Covaxin, which was granted emergency-use authorisation earlier in the day along with Serum Institute of India’s Covishield.
Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri directed his criticism at Congress leaders Shashi Tharoor and Jairam Ramesh and Samajwadi Party President Akhilesh Yadav. Tharoor and Ramesh had asked why Covaxin had been cleared before phase-3 trials. Yadav, on the other hand, had said that he would not get inoculated as the BJP’s vaccine could not be trusted.
“Our in-house cynics M/s Jairam, Tharoor and Akhilesh are behaving true to form,” Puri said in a tweet. “They first questioned the valour of our soldiers and are now unhappy that the two vaccines to get DCGI nod are made in India. Clearly they are on a quest for permanent political marginalization.”
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