Senior Congress leaders Shashi Tharoor and Jairam Ramesh on Monday spoke out in opposition to the UK authorities’s resolution to think about vaccinated folks in India, Africa, South America and a number of other different international locations and make them bear 10-day quarantine.
Tharoor, the Lok Sabha MP from Thiruvananthapuram, has postponed the talk at Cambridge Union and pulled out of the launch occasions of the UK version of his ebook “The Battle of Belonging”.
Quoting tweets from UK information analyst Alex Mackeras, Tharoor wrote: “This is why I have opted out of @cambridgeunion and launch events for the UK edition of my book #TheBattleOfBelonging (published as #TheStruggleForIndiasSoul). Asking fully vaccinated Indians to quarantine is objectionable. The British are reviewing!”
Because of this I’ve withdrawn from a debate @cambridgeunion &out of launch occasion for UK version of my ebook #TheBattleOfBelonging (revealed there as #TheStruggleForIndiasSoulAsking totally vaccinated Indians to quarantine is objectionable. British evaluate! https://t.co/YEVy3Ez5dj
Shashi Tharoor (Hashshi Tharoor) September 20, 2021
Rajya Sabha Congress MP Jairam Ramesh additionally termed the nation’s new journey coverage as “absolutely bizarre”. Quoting the identical supply, he wrote: “Absolutely weird contemplating Covishield was initially developed within the UK and Serum Institute, Pune has equipped to that nation as effectively! It smacks of racism.”
Absolutely odd contemplating that Covishield was initially developed within the UK and Serum Institute, Pune has equipped that nation as effectively! This smacks of racism. https://t.co/GtKOzMgydf
— Jairam Ramesh (@Jairam_Ramesh) September 20, 2021
In a tweet thread from two days in the past, Mackeras wrote of the UK’s newest journey coverage: “The UK Government confirms tonight that if a person has travel history to Africa, or South America, or the United Arab Emirates, India, Turkey, Jordan, Countries including Thailand, Russia have been vaccinated. … You are considered “undesirable” and you must follow “untested” guidelines = 10 days dwelling quarantine and testing.
Under the brand new guidelines, folks touring from India to the UK should bear a 10-day quarantine, throughout which they should be examined for COVID-19.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
