BJP accuses Congress leader of “full-time lobbying for pharma companies making foreign vaccines” Former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Thursday called the tika utsav [vaccination festival] a ‘sham’ and questioned the government on the use of PM-CARES fund in tackling the second wave. Mr. Gandhi alleged that neither testing was being done nor hospital beds, ventilators and oxygen were available. Separately, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra posted a photo of the Uttar Pradesh authorities covering up a Lucknow cremation ground by placing tin sheets and asked the “government not to hide the corona deaths”. “There are no tests or beds in hospitals. There are no ventilators or oxygen. The vaccine is also not there. But there is a sham of a festival. PM-CARES?” he asked.