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The Congress on Saturday accused the Central government of failing to protect the lives of the people amid the Covid-19 pandemic. It also urged the Centre to follow the suggestions of the experts to declare a nationwide lockdown in the wake of the rising number of Covid-19 cases across the country. Earlier in the day, former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi had hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for not utilising the vaccination budget . Vaccine budget - underutilized. Human life - undervalued. Because Prime Minister s ego - overinflated, he tweeted, attaching a news report which claimed that only Rs 4,744 crore has been utilised from the vaccine budget of Rs 35,000 crore.