NEW DELHI: Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Saturday demanded a national policy to deal with the alarming Covid situation and urged the government to work out a political consensus on the issue.
In a video message today, Sonia also repeated the party’s demand for free Covid vaccines to all and also of invoking compulsory licensing to ensure more manufactures can produce vaccines with the rigidity of the patent law exempted.
She said: “This is the time for the central and state governments to wake up and discharge their duties.”
“The Congress will stand with the central government in all decisions related to Covid control,” she said, urging the PM to put Rs 6,000 in the accounts of the poor.