“This was exactly what happened during the first wave of the pandemic, when the sudden announcement of the lockdown left lakhs of migrant labourers destitute. They were forced to walk thousands of kilometres hungry and thirsty to their villages. If we forget the lakhs of people who lost their lives by suffering immense pain, it will be a great injustice to them and to the country as well,” she wrote.“How can we forget the heart-wrenching scenes of patients clamouring for oxygen, families begging, helpless people waiting for beds outside hospitals. We need to always remember the brutal scene of dead bodies floating in the water and thousands of dead bodies lying on the ghat. This is necessary so that again no government can dare to do such cruelty and negligence,” Sonia Gandhi added.She said that due to the flawed vaccine procurement policy of the Modi government, cash-starved states became rivals with each other for the purchase and supply of vaccines.“In the last nine months after launching the vaccination campaign, we have been able to vaccinate only less than a third of our population. Countries equally affected by Corona, and even countries less resourceful than us have a better record than ours. In the first three weeks of October, only five million vaccines were being administered daily in India. Whereas, in line with our goal to vaccinate all eligible adults by the end of this year, we need to vaccinate at triple the rate,” she wrote.“There are other challenges in this fight as well, about which there is no clarity. The ratio between the first vaccine in India and the number of people fully vaccinated is one of the highest in the world. In addition, there are no plans to vaccinate children and minors between the ages of four and seventeen…” she added.”All over the world, priority is being given to the vaccination of children and minors below 18 years of age. It is necessary to vaccinate this generation in ours too, so that they can go to school, college and university safely,” the Congress president wrote.
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