Now Showing: Vote For COVID-19 Vaccine And More!
While there has
been a global race among nations for the production of the first effective
COVID-19 vaccine India perhaps becomes the first nation to politicize the
vaccine that is still a long way off. Yes, COVID-19 pandemic may kindly take
note. There has been a lot of ‘finance’ involved in it and so the Union Finance
Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, in a way, had to figure in this. Releasing the BJP
Manifesto for the three-phase Bihar assembly elections starting October 28, her
party promised to distribute the would-be COVID-19 vaccine absolutely free to
all citizens of the state. However, it was not clarified about that segment of
the state’s citizens who would not perhaps vote for the party’s alliance as to
how to exclude or list them out. Apart from this the Finance Minister further
justified her presence by promising around 1.9 million new jobs for Bihar. The directly
political populism of ‘vote for vaccine’ has, obviously, attracted a series of
allegations and attacks from the opp…
