PM calls for meeting on Covid-19; no politics around vaccine, says Oppn

Leaders across parties thinking about ways in which roll-out can be effective

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday called for an all-party meeting of parliamentary floor leaders on Friday to discuss issues related to the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic and the roll-out of a vaccine.

This is one government meeting Opposition parties will not roll up their sleeves for. Somewhat surprisingly for India, leaders say there must be no politics around the infection, or the vaccine.

A blame game has broken out between the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), which is in power in Delhi, and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which has lashed out at AAP for being lax in preventing the spread