India
oi-Deepika S
New Delhi, Jan 03: Union health minister Dr Harsh Vardhan on Sunday launched a scathing attack at Congress leaders Shashi Tharoor, Jairam Ramesh and Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav for doubting the approval given to Bharat Biotech’s vaccine while its third phase trial is going on.
“Disgraceful for anyone to politicise such a critical issue. Shashi Tharoor, Akhilesh Yadav and Jairam Ramesh-don’t try to discredit well laid out science-backed protocols followed for approving Covid-19 vaccines,” Vardhan tweeted.
Yadav has questioned India’s Covid-19 vaccines and said he won’t take “BJP’s vaccine”. Congress leaders like Anand Sharma, Jairam Ramesh and Shashi Tharoor raised concern over the grant of approval to it without the phase 3 trials, saying it is ‘premature’ and can prove dangerous.
In a tweet, Union Minister Hardeep Puri said, ‘Our in-house cynics M/s Jairam,…