Soon after Health Minister Harsh Vardhan and his deputy Ashwini Chaubey resigned from the Council of Ministers, the Congress said its continuous demand for the scalp of Health Ministers stands vindicated. The grand old party said it is a candid submission of the Government’s “monumental failure” in managing the Covid-19 pandemic.
Former Union Minister P Chidambaram took a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying if things go right, the credit will go to him and if they do not, it will fall on the minister concerned.
Another senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh said Vardhan has been made a scapegoat for the failures at the highest level.
“The resignations of the Union Health Minister and the MoS Health is a candid confession that the Modi government has utterly failed in managing the pandemic,” Chidambaram wrote on Twitter.
“There is a lesson for ministers in these resignations. If things go right the credit will go to the PM, if things go wrong the Minister will be the fall guy.