The authorities has rejected the report, saying “our vaccination is excellent”.
NewDelhi:
The Congress on Thursday cited a current media report back to allege “criminal culpability” of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, former Health Minister Harsh Vardhan and senior officers of the ICMR in fudging COVID-19 information “to build a false narrative that everything was normal” forward of the second wave, and demanded a judicial inquiry in opposition to them.
Citing the New York Times report which quoted former scientists of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) to assert political interference in giving out information on COVID-19 and associated deaths, senior spokesperson of the Congress Ajay Maken stated this can be a very severe concern and needs to be probed by a sitting choose of the Supreme Court or a excessive courtroom.
The authorities has rejected the media report with Niti Aayog member (well being) V Ok Paul describing it as “out of context report that is not desirable”.
ICMR chief Balram Bhargava stated, “This is a provocative, attention-seeking article published at a time when India is doing good and our vaccination is excellent and it is diverting attention. All the issues raised are dead ones and probably do not merit any attention.”
At a press convention, Mr Maken stated former ICMR scientists have themselves come out brazenly now and stated that due to political interference, the information was fudged and a false narrative was constructed that all the things is regular.
“We are demanding that a criminal investigation be carried out against the prime minister, against the former health minister and against senior officials of ICMR,” he instructed reporters.
The Congress chief stated this can be a very severe concern that the scientists have raised and famous that the get together has stated earlier too that an inquiry is finest carried out when it’s a judicial inquiry carried out by a sitting choose of the Supreme Court or a excessive courtroom below the supervision of the courtroom.
“That is the best form of any investigation. There should be a criminal investigation under court supervision by a sitting judge as this is not a small matter,” he stated.
“We feel that it was because of this reason that the guard was lowered and the state governments were unprepared and so was the general public, because of which there were large number of avoidable deaths during the second wave of coronavirus that caused so much devastation,” he stated.
“We could have saved so many lives had the false narrative not started and hence it requires a criminal investigation,” he stated.
The Congress get together will hit the streets on the problem in addition to increase it in Parliament within the coming days, Mr Maken stated.