Why MODI is a TRUE world leader?
By: Subhajit Paul
Tags: Covid Vaccine, Narendra Modi, Adar Poonawalla, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris

We have all grown up watching many superhero movies, to me I was always fascinated by Spiderman and I remember there was this quote “with great power comes great responsibility”.

With the rise in Covid-19 second wave, it is pretty much clear that the process of vaccination has to scale up, it is also going to be equally critical to scale the production for the vaccine.

In such a case the production solely depends on the supply of raw materials for the vaccine, but then why would the top boss of the World’s biggest vaccine manufacturer Serum Institute of India(SII) Adar Poonawala feel so helpless?

The CEO of the Indian biotechnology and pharmaceutical company wrote to the office of President of the United States of America Joe Biden requesting him to support companies like SII with raw materials which will ramp up production for the Covid-19 vaccine.

India followed the American presidential election very closely and a large number of Indian’s celebrated the victory of Joe Bidden for various reason best known to them. What most missed was that Bidden took the office with an agenda of 100 days and 100 million vaccines doses for the Americans.

Many also missed that Pfizer estimated that it would produce a little more than 1 billion vaccines and then before the presidential election it nearly cut the estimate by half and going by the campaign of President Biden it would be a massive blow for the Bidden administration.

Soon after taking the office, the Biden administration invoked the Defense Production Act which now allows the U.S. Govt to control the distribution of products, to curb the exports of raw materials critical for vaccine productions for various organisations globally like the Pune based SII presently this move by the Biden Administration is bringing down the monthly output of production from 100 million to 70 million a month.

In the year 2009 American president Barack Obama was awarded the Noble Peace Prize to me that was really funny because isn't it for a matter of fact that the President is supposed to make sure that there is peace and harmony right? With President Trump at the helm, the voices were growing against his administrative policies, his bilateral relation with Mexico, the wall, tax wars, North Korea nuclear diplomacy was few highlights that I could recall but there was an essence globally that countries are looking inward “Me and Mine” and the essence holds true with the Joe Biden and the Kamla Harris administration too.

The move is affecting the COVAX programme relying heavily on vaccines from India, supported by the World Health Organisation and Gavi Vaccine Alliance for 60 poorer countries mainly in Africa for months.

Indian Prime Minsiter Narendra Damodardas Modi

On the other hand, the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has proved this essence of “Me and Mine” wrong. India’s success in getting the vaccine to roll out in a year’s time was remarkable and then we just didn't limit ourselves India today has exported approximately 1.2 million doses of vaccines abroad helping nearly 45 countries in the list for 93 countries as mentioned in the Ministry of External Affairs website which includes countries like Bangladesh, Nepal, Myanmar, Egypt, Afghanistan and many more.

With this decision, it is right to say when the world shut its door then it was our motherland that opened the doors to the world and thought about humanity at first keeping aside all bilateral differences only under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

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Subhajit Paul

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