“Controversy around vaccine is example of ignorance, shouldn’t get undue importance”

While India became the first country in the world to give “emergency use permission” to two different variants of Covid-19 vaccines, a lot of politics also begin around it almost immediately.

Criticizing the same, a retired senior bureaucrat, on condition of anonymity said, “The controversy over the vaccines is yet another example of ignorance, jealousy, inferiority complex and political perversity. Instead of trusting and lauding our specialists and understanding the nuances, these self proclaimed experts go into an overdrive to spite the country and its capabilities.”

He further added that there is undue importance and publicity is being give to the undeserving.

On the statement made by a Congress leader, where he had asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to take the first shot of the vaccine, in order to boost trust among countrymen, the ex-official said, “I strongly differ with such unbridled, self destructive, anarchist, naxalite thought process. I bet, such theoretical intellectual stimulation has added nothing to progress, development or GDP in the past 50 years that I have seen this country from close quarters. You can check all areas affected by insurgency, naxalism and terrorism, which is also an outcome of similar intellectual bankruptcy.”

On Monday, Bihar Congress leader Ajit Sharma on Monday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi should take the first shot of COVID-19 vaccine to assure the people of the country.

“We are delighted to have got two vaccines in the new year but there is also doubt among people about this. In order to remove this doubt, head of state in Russia and America have taken the first shot of the vaccine, I believe that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the senior-most Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader should win the trust of the people by taking the first vaccine shot,” said the Congress leader.