Congress chief Jairam Ramesh addresses a press convention, on the AICC Headquarters, in New Delhi on Friday.
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Senior Congress chief Jairam Ramesh on Saturday accused Union minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar of peddling “lies”, after he alleged that the leaders of the opposition social gathering had been pushing the case of international vaccines after the COVID-19 pandemic broke out.
Tagging a video of Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla’s encounter with a journalist in Davos, Mr. Chandrasekhar stated on Twitter that the pharmaceutical firm tried to bully the Indian authorities into accepting situations of indemnity.
“And Cong trio of Rahul, Chidambaram and Jairam Ramesh kept pushing case of foreign vaccines during Covid,” the Union minister of state for info and know-how stated.
Hitting again at Mr. Chandrasekhar, Mr. Ramesh tweeted on Friday: “Let not your ambition to climb the greasy pole make you more of a liar than you are.”
On Saturday, Mr. Ramesh stepped up his assault on the Union minister, saying: “Rajeev_GoI, as minister concerned with regulating social media, you’ve misused it atrociously to peddle lies on me and my colleagues @PChidambaram_IN.” “We won’t take it lying down, meanwhile I wanted to call you out for what you really are. Will Twitter have the guts to expose you?” the Congress chief added.
