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Opinion | Covid vaccination: How Modi inspired
Prime Minister Narendra Modi led from the front on Monday to launch the Covid vaccination program for all Indians above the age of 60 years. He quietly left his official residence 7, Lok Kalyan Marg at 6 am and went to AIIMS in a small convoy of security vehicles, without any big security protocol, and got himself Covaxin dose from two South Indian nurses. After the mandatory half an hour observation, Modi quietly returned home, and posted pictures on social media to break the news to the world. This was a quiet statement of confidence from the PM in the indigenously developed Covid vaccine (Covaxin) about which some experts had raised lack of adequate efficacy data in recent months.
UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi (left) and Congress President Rahul Gandhi.Reuters
Sure, they have really juggled up but, in the process, have they truly jumbled up? In a major organizational rearrangement, as the Congress party appoints general secretaries and in-charges of All India Congress Committee, we read between the lines.
Party veterans like Ghulam Nabi Azad and Ambika Soni, senior leaders like Moti Lal Vohra, Luizinho Faleiro and Mallikarjun Khadge have been dropped from the list of general secretaries. It didn t take long for those watching to connect the dots back to the five-page letter of dissent written to the party last month. Azad was the senior-most among the total 23 signatories to the letter, which was addressed to Sonia Gandhi, seeking an organisational overhaul of the party s structure and way of functioning.
Presidential poll | BJP leaders did not cite any name, instead tried asking us the same: Ghulam Nabi Azad on Sonia Gandhi-Rajnath meet
Presidential poll | BJP leaders did not cite any name, instead tried asking us the same: Ghulam Nabi Azad on Sonia Gandhi-Rajnath meet
Senior Congress Leader Ghulam Nabi Azad Had Said The 10-member Opposition Panel Would Meet Again To Decide On A Suitable Presidential Nominee.
News Nation Bureau | Edited By : Vikas Mehta | Updated on: 16 Jun 2017, 11:03:16 PM
New Delhi:
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh and Union Urban Development Minister Venkaiah Naidu on Friday met Congress president Sonia Gandhi at latter’s residence to discuss presidential poll. The meeting lasted for over 30 minutes.