Rahul Gandhi’s famous statement that; Politics is everywhere, even in your pants and shirt, it keeps happening every day. In a democracy, the coordination that is often spoken between the government and the opposition is not simple, but not as difficult as we see in the politics of our country.
A common Indian would think that in the last year, along with other countries of the world, India is facing the epidemic, the main things which are coming in the way of fighting the epidemic, are the shortcomings of the health system. But if the points of coordination between the center and the state or between political parties are seen in the last year, then it will be understood that the lack of political coordination is a major reason in fighting this epidemic.
In this one year, coordination between several states and the central government ruled by opposition parties has appeared at its lowest level several times. There has been a lack of consensus on several points between governments from the decision on lockdown to vaccination and building basic facilities. The migration of migrant laborers from many states was the result of this lack of political coordination, in which many state governments recovered from the migrant laborers.
Apart from this, the doubts expressed by the opposition political parties about the vaccines, and create doubts in the minds of the citizens of the country about the vaccines made in India. It also happened that many leaders of the Opposition even exposed these vaccines, invented to prevent corona, to the BJP vaccine. Many leaders were seen spreading rumors, which Union Health Minister Dr. Harsh Vardhan also mentioned in his letter to former Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh.
Ever since the third phase of vaccination was announced, the market of debate and rumors is hot again. Sometimes debate and rumors are being raised about fixed vaccine prices, sometimes vaccine companies are being accused of earning unsuitable profits from the common Indian. Amidst these ongoing debates, a new topic came up in which the Chief Ministers of the Congress-ruled states have denied their states’ participation in the third phase of the vaccination campaign. The third phase is important because citizens from the age of eighteen to forty-five will get vaccinated.
While other states have placed their orders to the vaccine manufacturers in time, such as the Sirum Institute of India and Bharat Biotech, the Congress-ruled states like Punjab, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, and Jharkhand have refused to initiate this phase vaccination. Is done. Chief Ministers of these states say that they cannot start Phase III in their state because the vaccine manufacturers have informed them about the non-availability of vaccine stock. These states accused the Center that the Center has already purchased all the vaccines, due to which there are no vaccines left for these states.
This is a serious charge, but the question here is why such an allegation is coming only from the Congress-ruled states? When the decision of the third phase vaccination was given to every state on the same day, how is it that many more states have given their orders for the purchase of vaccines to the manufacturing companies but the same manufacturers are refusing to give the vaccine to the Congress-ruled states? Huh?
Uttar Pradesh and Bihar have also placed their orders and the advances with them to the manufacturing companies. Such complaints have not come from opposition ruled states like Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana but why is it only from Congress-ruled states?
In such a situation, if there is no politics behind it, what else is there? On the demand of the states itself, the central government approved the vaccination for citizens between the age of eighteen and forty-five years, with the condition that it would have to be borne by the state governments as the central government had already been able to provide for the citizens of the age of forty-five and above. Is taking the cost of vaccination.
The central government’s policy regarding vaccines has been clear in a sense where it considers people over the age of forty-five years of age and above to be a high-risk group and therefore wants to vaccinate this group first.
In addition to vaccinations of citizens between the ages of eighteen and forty-five, the demand for permission to import foreign vaccines from the Leader of the Opposition and Congress was also loudly accepted by the Central Government. A Congress chief minister and his ministers have created a lot of uproar over the level of vaccines for which Indian vaccine manufacturers have been accused of not giving vaccines on time. The government of Rajasthan has also talked about this lack of vaccines. The Health Minister of Rajasthan also expressed his inability to start the Phase III vaccination from May 1.
Rahul Gandhi also tried to motivate every congressman to work day and night by appealing a tweet, but his effect was not visible.
The second wave of the Chinese virus has been very strong in the country and due to that, it has had a huge impact on our health system. In such a situation, it is necessary that the state governments fulfill their responsibilities and in addition to providing basic facilities to the citizens, they should start the third phase of vaccination in their respective states. In view of the ever-increasing danger of infection, it is necessary that this work should be done on a war footing so that the country can control this epidemic as soon as possible.