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00:00 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]

00:07 Thank you, sir.

00:09 Come gather around people wherever you roam

00:12 and admit that the waters around you have grown.

00:15 And accept it that soon you'll be drenched to the bone,

00:18 for the times they are a changing.

00:20 Honorable chairperson, sir, my esteemed colleagues,

00:23 it is probably the first time that Bob Dylan has been

00:25 quoted in this August House.

00:27 But in these changing times, popular culture

00:30 can sometimes do what great poetry and great prose can't,

00:34 that is to strike a chord.

00:37 It is unlikely that in this myopic environment

00:40 of a Hindi, Hindu, and Hindutva driven environment

00:44 that most people will have listened to Dylan.

00:46 So let me again begin by repeating that the times are

00:49 indeed a changing.

00:51 From starting out as the Iron Man government, which

00:54 prided itself on never budging from its position,

00:57 the past 18 months have seen India transform itself

01:01 into the land of the U-turn.

01:04 The BJP government has finally realized

01:06 that they better start swimming or they'll sink like a stone.

01:10 I stand here today to speak on a discussion on the COVID

01:13 pandemic, a pandemic whose official death toll is

01:17 4.7 lakhs.

01:18 But all realistic unofficial records

01:21 put the number at 10 times that, or 4 million people.

01:25 This government only yesterday told us that it

01:27 had no data on farmer deaths.

01:30 Previously, it has told us it lacks data on migrant deaths.

01:33 It has no data on oxygen deaths.

01:36 So frankly, we would much rather go with unofficial figures

01:39 than the official figure.

01:41 The pandemic started off on almost a celebratory note

01:44 when the prime minister exhorted us all to gather outside,

01:48 bang thalis, light diyas.

01:50 When the government should have been ordering vaccines,

01:52 it was actually propitiating the gods.

01:55 The key errors that the government

01:56 made in COVID management were along the following lines.

02:00 Vaccine supply.

02:01 The government always knew this was a double dose vaccine.

02:04 To vaccinate an adult population of 940 million people,

02:09 India would need about 2 billion vaccines.

02:11 Foreign vaccines had not been approved by India.

02:14 Domestic production capacity was nowhere near what we needed.

02:18 In May and June of 2020, we should

02:20 have been ramping up production.

02:21 We didn't.

02:23 When the UK, the US, and the EU were investing in vaccines,

02:26 which had not yet been cleared, and placing advance orders,

02:29 these were high-risk investments, obviously.

02:32 But India didn't make these investments,

02:34 so they didn't get advance allotments.

02:36 So we had a supply crunch.

02:38 Halfway through the year, in mid-May,

02:40 June, the government said we would have 900 million vaccines

02:43 by year end.

02:44 But when they went to the Supreme Court

02:46 and placed an affidavit, they said

02:48 they would have only 500 million.

02:50 I'm very glad today that this government has

02:53 vaccinated a billion people--

02:56 a billion doses.

02:57 But that is not due to the government.

03:00 It is due to the fact that Covishield alone

03:02 has ramped up production to 240 million doses a month.

03:06 The next error was in the field of the rate of vaccination.

03:09 The government claimed it would fully vaccinate all adults

03:12 by year end 2021.

03:14 However, as of today, we have given a double dose

03:17 to only 48% of the adult population, which

03:20 is not even half, and a single dose to about 83% of adults.

03:25 To reach this target by year end-- that is, another 20 days--

03:28 we would have to vaccinate 18, 19 million people a day.

03:32 Today, we are doing only 9 million people a day.

03:35 What is the problem in increasing double dose

03:37 coverage?

03:38 You know what the problem is?

03:39 Because when we took down the names

03:41 of people who were getting the first dose,

03:43 we took only their phone numbers.

03:45 The government didn't take their addresses.

03:47 Now we have a vast rural population, urban slums,

03:50 migrant labor.

03:51 So when, with the harvest season going on

03:54 and poor rural connectivity, you're

03:55 trying to contact these people to chase up on double dosage,

03:59 we're not getting much success.

04:01 So we need physical teams to go house to house.

04:04 In India, now we are busy playing catch up.

04:07 There is complete silence on third booster

04:09 shots for the vulnerable, as well as vaccines

04:12 for children and under 18s.

04:15 There's a battle outside, and it's raging.

04:17 It will soon shake your windows and rattle your walls

04:20 for the times they are a-changing.

04:22 These changing times caused the government

04:24 to do three rapid U-turns in vaccine policy.

04:27 The government's original vaccine policy

04:28 required people under 45 to pay for their vaccines.

04:32 The Supreme Court called this arbitrary and irrational,

04:35 and it also breached the fundamental rights

04:37 of Indians, Article 14, Article 21.

04:40 The Center for States said states

04:42 should pay more than the Center.

04:43 Then they backed down.

04:45 Then they first said that private hospitals have

04:47 the right to fix prices, then they backed down.

04:51 The line it has drawn, the curse it has cast,

04:54 the second wave of the pandemic laid bare

04:56 how grossly unequipped our health care systems were.

05:00 When several factors were responsible for the pandemic,

05:02 not all of which can be blamed on the government,

05:05 an easily preventable dimension of this

05:08 was that oxygen shortage should never have happened in India.

05:12 Independent researchers have documented

05:14 that between April and May 2021, over 700 patients

05:19 died due to oxygen shortage alone.

05:22 In early April, it was clear we had a problem.

05:25 I have two minutes more, sir.

05:26 Two minutes, sir.

05:27 Please, within one minute now.

05:29 Please, two minutes.

05:30 I'm very sorry, but parties asked you.

05:32 In early April, it was clear there was a problem.

05:34 Numbers were exceeding 270,000 a day.

05:38 Yet the Prime Minister was lauding a huge crowd

05:41 in a Bengal election rally.

05:43 The Shahi Snana Dukum for lakhs of people continued.

05:46 The Chief Minister of Uttarakhand said,

05:48 "We have faith in God and in Mother Ganga."

05:51 Let me point out a very brief timeline of who said what.

05:55 27 January 2021, World Economic Forum,

05:59 Java's Honorable Prime Minister declares,

06:01 "India has succeeded in defeating --

06:04 containing corona effectively."

06:07 21 February 2021, the BJP passes a resolution

06:10 glorifying the Prime Minister

06:12 and stating that India has defeated corona

06:14 solely due to him.

06:16 7 March 2021, the Health Minister says,

06:19 "We're in the endgame of the COVID-19 pandemic in India."

06:22 And then, Parul Khakkar says,

06:25 [speaking in foreign language]

06:33 The majoritarian narrative that this government

06:35 was propagating through its intermediaries

06:36 and via its power is slowly but surely disintegrating.

06:40 The first of these is the office of the PMO.

06:43 In a democracy, one should be able to fairly criticize

06:46 the highest elected office.

06:48 Sir, this is not fair, sir.

06:49 Jarad Dhan Singh, sir, got nine minutes.

06:51 They just -- we got nine minutes, sir.

06:53 Please let me finish.

06:54 Today, I stand --

06:56 No, sir, please let me finish.

06:57 This is not fair, sir.

06:59 Sir, this is not fair.

07:00 (upbeat music)

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