Won’t get vaccinated since I don’t trust BJP’s vaccine: Akhilesh Yadav

Samajwadi Party (SP) Chief Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday announced he would not get himself vaccinated even after the Coronavirus vaccine arrives in India. Speaking to the media at the Samajwadi Party office in Lucknow, Akhilesh said he does not trust the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) vaccine. “This vaccine belongs to people in the BJP. How can I trust this vaccine? When our government comes to power in 2022, everyone will get the corona vaccine free of cost.”

Yadav claimed there is no outbreak of coronavirus infection anywhere in the country. “The BJP has spread the fear of the pandemic only to scare the opposition. Look at me I am sitting with everybody without a mask.”

He asked the media to tell him where coronavirus is. The SP Chief said the fear of coronavirus spread by the BJP is only for the opposition parties so that the opposition does not conduct any programme in the state and the country. “During the lockdown, the BJP was busy beating ‘thaalis.’ Then what is the need for a dry run of the Coronavirus vaccine now?”

The former Uttar Pradesh chief minister met religious leaders from all faiths from Ayodhya on Saturday and took their blessings.

Akhilesh must apologise for vaccine remark: UP Deputy CM

After Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday said that he would not get a vaccine shot against coronavirus since it was a ‘BJP vaccine’, Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya said Yadav was questioning the efforts of scientists and doctors and should therefore apologise.

The BJP leader said SP national President had made a ‘childish’ statement. “Renowned scientists and doctors across the world are making efforts to defeat coronavirus. Research is on and vaccine candidates have been readied. Akhilesh is now saying that he will not get the vaccine shot made by the BJP. He should apologise for his statement,” Maurya said.