{"id":327871,"date":"2020-10-22T12:53:53","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T12:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=327871"},"modified":"2020-10-22T12:53:53","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T12:53:53","slug":"refer-to-the-state-wise-election-schedule-rahul-gandhi-on-bjp-free-covid-19-vaccine-promise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/refer-to-the-state-wise-election-schedule-rahul-gandhi-on-bjp-free-covid-19-vaccine-promise\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Refer to the state-wise election schedule\u2019: Rahul Gandhi on BJP free COVID-19 vaccine promise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-327793 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/rahul-waynad.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"760\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/rahul-waynad.jpg 760w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/rahul-waynad-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/rahul-waynad-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/rahul-waynad-696x527.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/rahul-waynad-554x420.jpg 554w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/>Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday slammed the Central Government over its &#8216;poll promise&#8217; in Bihar, as per which every person in the state will get free vaccination once the COVID-19 vaccine will be available for production at a mass scale.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cGOI just announced India\u2019s Covid access strategy. Kindly refer to the state-wise election schedule to know when will you get it, along with a hoard of false promises,\u201d Rahul tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Earlier in the day, Union Finance Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Nirmala Sitharaman released BJP\u2019s manifesto titled \u2018Paanch sutra, ek lakshya, 11 sankalp\u2019 for Bihar assembly elections 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u2018As soon as the COVID-19 vaccine will be approved by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR),\u00a0every person in the State will be vaccinated,&#8221; the manifesto said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Besides Gandhi, several other leaders mocked BJP\u2019s election manifesto. Congress MP Shashi Tharoor in a tweet said, \u201cTum mujhe vote do main tumhe vaccine (Give me votes, I will give you vaccine)\u2026 what appalling cynicism! Will the Election Commission rap her and her shameless government on the knuckles?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said, \u201cWill BJP be paying for these vaccines from the party treasury? If it\u2019s coming from the government treasury then how can Bihar get free vaccines while the rest of the country has to pay? There is so much wrong with this blatant populism that shamefully exploits COVID fears.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday slammed the Central Government over its &#8216;poll promise&#8217; in Bihar, as per which every person in the state will get free vaccination once the COVID-19 vaccine will be available for production at a mass scale. \u201cGOI just announced India\u2019s Covid access strategy. Kindly refer to the state-wise election schedule [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":327793,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2915,2089,1801,2014],"tags":[842,579],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327871"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327871"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327873,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327871\/revisions\/327873"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/327793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}