India has emerged as perhaps the first – and so far, only – country in
the world whose leader is using vaccination certificates to promote his
own politics and cult of personality.
Provisional certificates issued by the Ministry of Health and Family
Welfare, Government of India to all those vaccinated carry a prominent
strip at the bottom with the photograph of Prime Minister Narendra Modi
along with exhortations in English (“Together We Will Defeat Covid-19”)
and Hindi.
Each certificate also includes the beneficiary’s basic details, the name
of the vaccine candidate administered (Covishield or Covaxin), the
location of the dose and the batch number and due date for the second
dose. The Wire has been able to confirm with others who have received
vaccinations that Modi’s photograph and message is affixed to all their
certificates.
India’s vaccination certificates are in stark contrast to the
certificates or cards that the US and some other countries have been
vaccinated.
For example, the UK’s National Health Service vaccination card is small,
about the size of a business card, and whose only image is of a crown.
In India, the BJP offered vaccines at no cost only in exchange for
votes. given by local or political considerations.
The use of Modi’s photograph on the vaccination certificate is also
being seen by the opposition Congress as an attempt to influence voters.
India's PM is clearly power drunk and as he controls all the media & the
Judiciary, he can do as he pleases. Nobody can challenge him.
Eddie
