New Delhi: Responding to former prime minister Dr. Manmohan Singh's letter to Narendra Modi, Union Minister for health Harsh Vardhan trained guns on Congress, saying his party colleagues failed to share his views.
Minister took to Twitter on Monday to share his response to Dr Manmohan Singh's letter.
"History shall be kinder to you Dr Manmohan Singh ji if your offer of ‘constructive cooperation and valuable advice was followed by your INC leaders as well in such extraordinary times !" tweeted Vardhan. He has also attached his response letter.
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Further, Vardhan said, "Congress leaders even shamed the vaccines in public but took their doses in private. A word of advice from you to them-even if it had been done in private by you-may have ensured better cooperation from these people."
Responding to Singh's question on the percentage of population vaccinated, Vardhan responded, "Your advice to not get tempted to go by absolute numbers, but to go by percentage of population covered, is not incorrect. However, I am sure that you will agree with me that this is a practice that must be followed uniformly and junior members of your party too must follow your advice."
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"Quite obviously, it cannot be that the discussion on total cases, active cases or mortality is based on absolute numbers, which the Congress party often tries to do, but the vaccination numbers continue to be touted as a percentage of the population covered," wrote Vardhan in his letter.
Last day, Dr Manmohan Singh suggested five measures to deal with the Covid-19 situation and emphasized that vaccination need to be ramped up and supply of medicines should be increased to combat the pandemic. He also suggested that compulsory licensing for drug manufacturers should be implemented.
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