Modi Government ignored experts' advice and refused to strengthen the supply chains for oxygen, medicine, and ventilators. "The Modi Government failed to place sufficient orders for vaccines in time to meet the needs of our people.
Instead, it consciously chose to allocate thousands of crores for non-essential projects that have nothing to do with the people's well-being".Further, Gandhi said that Parliament had allocated ₹35,000 crore in the union budget 2021 to ensure free vaccines for all. "Yet the Modi Government has placed the burden on already stretched state governments," she added.She asserted that the union government's inequitable vaccination policy will exclude millions of Dalits, Adivasis, other backward classes, as well as, the.