New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has said the Union government was busy fighting for a blue tick on Twitter, leaving people to fend for themselves and become ‘aatma nirbhar’ in their fight to get Covid vaccines.
“The Modi government is fighting for the blue tick. If you want a Covid vaccine, then be self-reliant,” he said in a sarcastic tweet in Hindi, using the hashtag ‘#Priorities’.
Rahul’s remarks came a day after outrage over the removal of ‘blue tick’ badge from the personal accounts of Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu and RSS top functionaries, including Mohan Bhagwat, by Twitter, only to restore it later.
Hitting back at the Congress leader, the BJP said he should get out of social media and work on the ground. The party also asked him to speak to Chief Ministers of Congress-ruled States regarding alleged scams and irregularities in the Covid vaccination programme there.