India achieved independence in 1947 but formal immunisation program was launched by Janta party government in 1978 as “Expanded Programme of Immunisation”. Until 1978, India was ruled by @RahulGandhi family for 29 out of 31 yrs - it took a change in Govt to start this program
In short, the performance of @rahulgandhi family and his party as far as immunisation programs in the past is concerned is a tell-tale sign of their capabilities. And he should be last person to lecture us on vaccination
Coming back to COVID-19 vaccinations, until yesterday India has already used 20.57 crores doses in 138 days as against USA that started 32 days before India and has given 28.9 crore doses. So we are actually vaccinating at same rate as USA- only issue is diff in population!
Given India's population, it is imp to understand vaccination will always be a challenge. Unfortunately @RahulGandhi in his hate for PM @narendramodi is cherry picking data or using data in absolute terms or percentage terms to score political points.
This is exactly why @RahulGandhi is using vaccination numbers in percentage terms but when it comes to death number- where India's per million death no is lowest- he is discrediting the currently available data. Unfortunately Indian media wont even ask him these Qs
Government's efforts will start showing results in next 10 days with supplies going up significantly and Rahul Gandhi know this- reason why you are seeing this last ditch attempt to hit @narendramodi via attack on govt's Covid vaccination program
. @narendramodi govt has beefed up production by prepaying for vaccines-May (8 cr) & June (9 cr) will see addition of 17 cr doses until June end. Sputnik will be in addition to this.
Until yesterday, centre has given 22 cr doses to states for free. hindustantimes.com/india-news/cov…
Sputnik & AZ doses,US is giving will lead to availability of more quota for vaccination. Soon, per day vaccination number will touch 5 million. It doesnt behold @RahulGandhi to talk of strategy-Cong ruled states vaccine wastage data shows how they r defeating this war on covid
Lastly adding this thread to my thread to show how @RahulGandhi family helped India with vaccination in the past.
Be it RotaVirus (15 yrs)or JE (83 yrs) or Hepatitis B (33 yrs) or DPT (54 yrs) his family made Indians wait for years before they got normal vaccines-
An observation: one sided media coverage of Covid19 has galvanised Modi supporters like never before. The determination,fighting spirit & tenacity amongst Modi supporters, iam witnessing now, surpasses one witnessed during pre 14 days. The anger against media is at its peak!
People are aware of the fact that any more ceding of space to media will allow them to steal the mandate given to @narendramodi -the pushback against media lies, I am witnessing from supporters is huge. Reason why this late night room started be 3 westerners saw more than 800 ppl
This room ran past 3 am and led to several reactionary rooms that went on till morning.The left-cong cabal couldn’t digest the fact that a Hungarian, German and a Dutch guy found @narendramodi as the leader of the free world. All their sweeping statements was countered with data
After @DelhiPolice , @GoI_MeitY had come out with a press release trashing @Policy saying that protecting Free speech is the domain and reserve of worlds largest democracy and its robust institutions. A for profit foreign entity should not lecture us on free speech!
“@Policy statement is an attempt to dictate its terms to the world’s largest democracy. Through its actions and deliberate defiance, Twitter seeks to undermine India’s legal system. Furthermore, Twitter refuses to comply with those very regulations in the Intermediary Guidelines”
The larger Q is, if @Twitter is so committed then why it did not set up such a mechanism in India on its own? @TwitterIndia routinely claim that they have no authority and that they and the people of India need to escalate everything to the Twitter Headquarter in USA.
Dear @SallyBuzbee@hiattf and @PostBaron most recently - this same @bdutt most recently used her fathers unfortunate death to score brownie points by resorting to lies that were exposed by @ThePulseIndia after they tracked down the ambulance driver from the pic Dutt tweeted!
That said, I urge all three of you @SallyBuzbee@hiattf and @PostBaron to do a basic background check on this story published by your reputed paper - not only is this factually incorrect but is akin to your paper letting @bdutt use ur platform to spread fake news and propaganda
Extremely interesting pattern in the reporting following filing of case by WA against GOI rules. Clearly, English language media seems be lobbying for @Facebook as evident from the way how FB version found space on front page while Govt version has been relegated to back pages
Seems @bipchakr - PR head for @facebook in India - has learnt her lessons very well from the way Cong & AAP hounded Ankhi Das last Sept! Clearly, everything seems to be going well with Cong now!
How many of you remember how one year ago, Cong, AAP and their supporters went all guns blazing after FBs Ankhi Das - it all started with @ShashiTharoor accusing Facebook of favouring BJP- @bipchakr was hired in Mar 20 & seems all of them have decide to smoke a peace pipe
Several myths on India’s Covid-19 vaccination program are doing the rounds. These myths are arising due to distorted statements, half truths and blatant lies. pib.gov.in/PressReleasePa…
So what is centre doing to buy vaccines from abroad?
Myth 2: Centre has not approved globally available vaccines
Saw a tweet by @kiranshaw where she used called B1.617.2 as Indian Variant. So I searched for “Chinese Virus” and “Wuhan Virus” usage to see if this is a norm or her love for “Indian” is reserved only for the country of her residence- well result is there to see in pic 2 & 3!
What amazes me is the fact that @kiranshaw runs India’s largest biotech company and should be the last person to use such term, given her credentials. But then blind hate for PM @narendramodi can make you do things that u won’t imagine on normal days under Congress rule!
Here I must mention @JenniferKulik3 who was running a @Clubhouse room recently. I saw that room full of reputed doctors & epidemiologists & I objected to the usage. Full credit to Jennifer who accepted her mistake & ensured that no one called it Indian variant after that!