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Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.
Modi knowingly wasted lot of money on chinese faulty products.
cause in 27th March 2020 end of weekend there was wion news reporter Palki sharma report that from Spain, Italy, turkey and other countries they share their experience that chinese medkit is faulty… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeehLHSZkOQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uV6Wa6EfXgI (Please check this video). these videos reported in 27th march
and even after that India buy medkit from china in april and they gave this same statement on 16th april. which is totally foolish. when there more than 8 countries giving their experience on medkit indian government buy medkit from china only to say china medkits are faulty then this government NOOB. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97MscEICXq0&t
Wion channel is Indian channel Palki sharma is Indian news anchor and whole Indian knows these news but government sleeping while this happening.
Why not suggest a “better” alternative according t o you ?
Indian government sleeping when there was 8 countries gave their experience on 27th march that chinese medkit are faulty
and these news reported by Indian news channel. what Indian government doing they says we take experience from other countries
take experience from other countries not to do mistake. but in here Indian government did same mistake 1 month later what these 8 countries did mistake before 1 month, that is foolish https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeehLHSZkOQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uV6Wa6EfXgI (Please check this video). these videos reported in 27th march)
and
This is India statement on 16th april https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97MscEICXq0&t
Mr Tharoor raised this issue of underrated rapid testing kit procured from china is well noted and could be an example to act ICMR team more accurate and usefull for future many asignments which would be always on the floor in near future against this deadly epidemic COVID-19
Motive of pointing such issues should not be framed politicaly .
As per my thinking in ICMR team, there are many people are highly technical background may be a million times superior than Mr Tharoor ,so its not right time to raised this issue
If Mr Tharoor use this issue as tool to show incompetency in decision making of present govermeny ,so its so unfortunate ..
Not responding against 2008 Mumbai terror attack was a competent decision of our
Ex.PM Manmohan singh ?
Bhakts do not address the moot point that Dr Tharoor has raised in this article:Why is the ICMR dragging its feet in giving certification to the Indian product?
All those comments which make a poor attempt to defend the government are not convincing at all. They have essentially skirted the main issue and are engaged in the usual exercise of abusing the Congress. One may criticize the Congress, but it doesn’t answer the basic question : Why did the Government trust the Chinese products, when the global market reports indicated that these products were defective? Obviously, the money paid to the Chinese company will not be refunded by them. This is an avoidable loss to the exchequer. Answer this, don’t engage in the abusive battle.
Remember even after icmr government repeatedly telling these rapid testing is not useful and accurate you people pressurized government and make them import. Now you want to run away from this. How is that possible. Kerala your state is leading one to make claims on rapid testing. People of India can understand every thing you can’t fool us. .
did they asked to import low quality, useless kits?
These kits have come from China so as the Corona virus. When will we learn from the blunders we commit time and again
Aren’t there any committed sincere citizens to look into such purchases at what cost at what price . China want to destroy India and its economy what will we leave behind for our children only trouble trouble trouble
China wants to be a world leader and they are going to succeed at this rate. All the best
Dear sashi
Why waste precious time on writing on things you and i are not qualified to write upon. The decision of the government is not taken by a low level class 4 employee but by senior bureaucrats in consultation with ICMR and other bodies. You and i are nowhere in the pic. Do not croon to please your political masters and continue to be a wet door mat for them. Use your grey matter a bit, discuss with persons of integrity, maturity and commitment to the country before yodeling. Anyhow thanks for the entertainment. RIP.
Haha good joke clubbing a nobody like yourself with Shashi Tharoor. Just because your low grade brain can’t think doesnt mean others can’t. These bureaucrats who you say made the decision couldn’t have done so without the nod of their political masters so dont deflect blame. Address the issue and suggest solutions if you can.
Read Natesh’s comment again or take somebody’s help to understand what exactly he has written.As far as clubbing one
self with taroor is concerned , I have a feeling that you were born just a few days ago.
Ahem, you lack the language to take on someone like Tharoor. Suggest you stick to your mother tongue.
Ni aarada pulle athu chodikkaan?
It is not the time to rake up such scientific issues about the new virus and murky the political waters. But nothing better can be expected from a third-grade seedy politician like Sashi Tharoor, who has his worth of shady dealings behind him. As a low-level retainer of a family that had a tyrannical control over India for the most part of its existence since 1947, nothing better can be expected. Now, look at the facts.
In the initial days of the COVID-19 outbreak, the US decided refused to accept the WHO-approved test and decided to develop their test and testing kits. The quest for “our own testing” caused the US to lose almost one month of crucial time before their bungled testing developed process could approve something useful. The disastrous trajectory the US is now having with nearly one million infected and over 50,000 dead and dead bodies being disposed of in mass burial sites in the heart of New York is primarily attributed to this vanity of needing “my testing.” There is no doubt faulty RT-PCR test kits coming from China, maybe because of the rushed manufacturing processes. India can very well produce RT-PCR tests based on international standards. But speed is the essence here, which may require us to use test kits from abroad.
The RT-LAMP test mentioned here is still in experimental deployment in many other countries. It can not replace RT-PCR until more mass scale studies are done for its reliability. It may prove to faster and reliable, but it depends on more reviews. This test can’t be approved by someone in ICMR signing a piece of paper. The second test mentioned in an antibody test, which can’t replace RT-PCR tests that detect the virus. Blood tests can compliment RT-PCR tests and could be useful in surveillance. Various blood tests are available in the world now – by one count over 300 – but not one among these has been deployed anywhere in the world. A lot of these tests have sensitivity problems and could potentially come with dangerously erroneous data. The pandemic management strategies if are based on such inaccurate data will endanger the lives of millions of people.
A lot of blah blah blah by a low IQ bhakt. Why not south Korean kits if speed was of the essence?
A low IQ bhakt to any day better than a sterling slave of a despotic family. Now, it is a long jump to South Korea for vanity testing.
One can understand your frustration with any lengthy comment because your capacity to write or understand a comment is limited to one line.Bye, you oneliner.
I think people here are judging a govt decisions.
Indoa hot both chinese and korean kit.
But there was delay from korean as whole world
is fighting for this kits.
Some times options are not existing.
If you delay one day we are loosing lockdown
period will extend loose more people.
We cant wait for best gun.in battle we have
fight with what u have or available.
Its easy to comment.
Just imagine if we behaved like US or Italy .
Thanks god. Its easy comment not easy to perform.
We have 1.2 bln. people which is adverse to çontrol
pandemic like this. Bharat mata ki Jai
Sasi Taroor and all others wasting time in doing slavery for Gandhi family. If any is real leader Congress party should make Rahul to sit home because Rahul sitting India not able to win even a single seat in Delhi polls. Only leaders can comment on Govt decisions not slaves.
Respomd to the points raised in the article if you can, otherwise best to keep quiet.
Don’t shoot the messenger if you don’t like the message.
oops!! you cannot comment then
We all should accept it s a mistake but no one tells about what next. Is our country going to get back our money. Is the government or any other parties trying to get instead of blaming and would also like to request each party or the fellow people how about the expats who are waiting to get back to their loved ones back in India.
It is better to you mr shashi to tell your boss that Not using zoom app and go for any indian app…. It is much easier to done…… That type of politics of congress couldn’t work and you will sit till 2029.
I fully endorse Dr. Tharoor here.
In Crisis, test of leadership is in its decision making ability. 2o % may be error.
This Chinese import is a major blunder.
And Information Highway among parliamentarians in India is very poor given their tu tu , main main attitude.
Lord assist us!
So essentially, he is saying Govt should wait till domestic options are available. For me I am not sure of quality of Indian products unless thoroughly tested (a legacy of Congress self sufficiency).
And asking for more testing anyway is a red herring, given the low positivist rates.
Wow what an argument. You dont believe in the quality of indian products but you put your trust in useless chinese products which have a 95 percent failure rate. Mind numbingly dumb and unpatriotic comment.
SHRI Tharoor is a brilliant person and I wish he was the leader of congress (i) in Loksabha. Sir would you support compulsory family planning measures with strict population control measures through law.
He waited long for the indian options but it was your leaders who pressurised the government to buy kits fast in order to increase testing. Don’t forget that Rahul is your party leader.
If you had bothered to read the article, it is clearly stated that SCIMST developed a testing kit, but inexplicably ICMR has been sitting on it for weeks .One has to wonder whether vested interests have come interplay to stop reaching the market.
It’s well known that Congress has already sold out to China and Pakistan.
Now the Congress spokesman is crying Wolf.
Mr. Tharoor, who do you think you are trying to fool??
And who do you think you are trying to fool, by hiding nehind fake names like Jack Mohammad? No Jack Mohammad, Jack, or Mohammad would write such a comment.. So who are you, and who are your paymasters?
Good job, here’s 5 rupees for your trouble. You are behind on your 100 comments a day target though which you are paid to do so speed up!
I think after demonetisation and now this lockdown it has become amply clear that implementation of decisions, planning and troubleshooting in non-political space is not this government’s strong point. The history is littered with instances of best decisions ruined owing to incompetence in their implementation.
These Congressi idiots have really nothing in hand towards positive contributions to any problem except sermons, preaching without practice, endless suggestions without being able to fathom the nature of the problem, doing all kind of futile researches of -this could have been done..that should have been implemented etc., ignoring the views of the entire world spectrum including WHO that Indian Govt is the best so far in handling COVID – 19.
Suddenly they appear to possess all wisdom and show off foolishly that they are so wise.
These nincompoops have no mission, vision or positive plan of action to any kind of problem. Really the bankruptcy is at the lowest ebb in Congress. Spare them from lock down and they will flood the space with press conferences, Shahin bagh support, Tukde gang sympathy and probably illuminating Iftaar parties with Owessis, Pathans, Khans and Syeds with exemplary minority appeasement culture. Leave it to Sadhus lynching case, these Cong stooges, Buddhu jibis, sickulars, award wapsis, HR activists will be found immaculately in oblivion as if holed up in their place of birth and origin at ante natal stage.
SHAME – SHAME – SHAME
Call out the government for its failed policies and the bhakts take you to the failed tukde tukde gang rhetorics. Guess who’s selling the nation? Purchasing Rs 35 crore failed test kits from China when the other countries clearly rejected them much before.
Congress was trying to make political gain by shouting from rooftop for rapid test. Only China had the capacity to supply. No other nation has surplus kits. GOI would not have gone for kits from China but for chest beating by Congress.
Congress should be ignored in future for its stupidity and actions detrimental to national interests.
Wrong, Pankaj. We could have ordered South Korean kits which have a better success rate and quality. Why is ICMR not approving domestic kits, have you thought about that? Doubt it.
o yeah, failed policies, indeed. ask your pappy whose failed policies has landed India in a ditch and now has to be pulled out.
The Fine Print : uk government finally admits pcr test KIT genarate false positive report.
10 march 2021
The wire News…
Modi knowingly wasted lot of money on chinese faulty products.
cause in 27th March 2020 end of weekend there was wion news reporter Palki sharma report that from Spain, Italy, turkey and other countries they share their experience that chinese medkit is faulty…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeehLHSZkOQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uV6Wa6EfXgI (Please check this video). these videos reported in 27th march
and even after that India buy medkit from china in april and they gave this same statement on 16th april. which is totally foolish. when there more than 8 countries giving their experience on medkit indian government buy medkit from china only to say china medkits are faulty then this government NOOB.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97MscEICXq0&t
Wion channel is Indian channel Palki sharma is Indian news anchor and whole Indian knows these news but government sleeping while this happening.
Leather
Mr. T, we are dealing with a Tv/ media showman who happened to be the prime minister. What else do you expect other than some rating games?
Why not suggest a “better” alternative according t o you ?
Indian government sleeping when there was 8 countries gave their experience on 27th march that chinese medkit are faulty
and these news reported by Indian news channel. what Indian government doing they says we take experience from other countries
take experience from other countries not to do mistake. but in here Indian government did same mistake 1 month later what these 8 countries did mistake before 1 month, that is foolish
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeehLHSZkOQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uV6Wa6EfXgI (Please check this video). these videos reported in 27th march)
and
This is India statement on 16th april
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97MscEICXq0&t
Mr Tharoor raised this issue of underrated rapid testing kit procured from china is well noted and could be an example to act ICMR team more accurate and usefull for future many asignments which would be always on the floor in near future against this deadly epidemic COVID-19
Motive of pointing such issues should not be framed politicaly .
As per my thinking in ICMR team, there are many people are highly technical background may be a million times superior than Mr Tharoor ,so its not right time to raised this issue
If Mr Tharoor use this issue as tool to show incompetency in decision making of present govermeny ,so its so unfortunate ..
Not responding against 2008 Mumbai terror attack was a competent decision of our
Ex.PM Manmohan singh ?
Bhakts do not address the moot point that Dr Tharoor has raised in this article:Why is the ICMR dragging its feet in giving certification to the Indian product?
All those comments which make a poor attempt to defend the government are not convincing at all. They have essentially skirted the main issue and are engaged in the usual exercise of abusing the Congress. One may criticize the Congress, but it doesn’t answer the basic question : Why did the Government trust the Chinese products, when the global market reports indicated that these products were defective? Obviously, the money paid to the Chinese company will not be refunded by them. This is an avoidable loss to the exchequer. Answer this, don’t engage in the abusive battle.
Remember even after icmr government repeatedly telling these rapid testing is not useful and accurate you people pressurized government and make them import. Now you want to run away from this. How is that possible. Kerala your state is leading one to make claims on rapid testing. People of India can understand every thing you can’t fool us. .
did they asked to import low quality, useless kits?
These kits have come from China so as the Corona virus. When will we learn from the blunders we commit time and again
Aren’t there any committed sincere citizens to look into such purchases at what cost at what price . China want to destroy India and its economy what will we leave behind for our children only trouble trouble trouble
China wants to be a world leader and they are going to succeed at this rate. All the best
Dear sashi
Why waste precious time on writing on things you and i are not qualified to write upon. The decision of the government is not taken by a low level class 4 employee but by senior bureaucrats in consultation with ICMR and other bodies. You and i are nowhere in the pic. Do not croon to please your political masters and continue to be a wet door mat for them. Use your grey matter a bit, discuss with persons of integrity, maturity and commitment to the country before yodeling. Anyhow thanks for the entertainment. RIP.
Haha good joke clubbing a nobody like yourself with Shashi Tharoor. Just because your low grade brain can’t think doesnt mean others can’t. These bureaucrats who you say made the decision couldn’t have done so without the nod of their political masters so dont deflect blame. Address the issue and suggest solutions if you can.
Read Natesh’s comment again or take somebody’s help to understand what exactly he has written.As far as clubbing one
self with taroor is concerned , I have a feeling that you were born just a few days ago.
Ahem, you lack the language to take on someone like Tharoor. Suggest you stick to your mother tongue.
Ni aarada pulle athu chodikkaan?
It is not the time to rake up such scientific issues about the new virus and murky the political waters. But nothing better can be expected from a third-grade seedy politician like Sashi Tharoor, who has his worth of shady dealings behind him. As a low-level retainer of a family that had a tyrannical control over India for the most part of its existence since 1947, nothing better can be expected. Now, look at the facts.
In the initial days of the COVID-19 outbreak, the US decided refused to accept the WHO-approved test and decided to develop their test and testing kits. The quest for “our own testing” caused the US to lose almost one month of crucial time before their bungled testing developed process could approve something useful. The disastrous trajectory the US is now having with nearly one million infected and over 50,000 dead and dead bodies being disposed of in mass burial sites in the heart of New York is primarily attributed to this vanity of needing “my testing.” There is no doubt faulty RT-PCR test kits coming from China, maybe because of the rushed manufacturing processes. India can very well produce RT-PCR tests based on international standards. But speed is the essence here, which may require us to use test kits from abroad.
The RT-LAMP test mentioned here is still in experimental deployment in many other countries. It can not replace RT-PCR until more mass scale studies are done for its reliability. It may prove to faster and reliable, but it depends on more reviews. This test can’t be approved by someone in ICMR signing a piece of paper. The second test mentioned in an antibody test, which can’t replace RT-PCR tests that detect the virus. Blood tests can compliment RT-PCR tests and could be useful in surveillance. Various blood tests are available in the world now – by one count over 300 – but not one among these has been deployed anywhere in the world. A lot of these tests have sensitivity problems and could potentially come with dangerously erroneous data. The pandemic management strategies if are based on such inaccurate data will endanger the lives of millions of people.
A lot of blah blah blah by a low IQ bhakt. Why not south Korean kits if speed was of the essence?
A low IQ bhakt to any day better than a sterling slave of a despotic family. Now, it is a long jump to South Korea for vanity testing.
One can understand your frustration with any lengthy comment because your capacity to write or understand a comment is limited to one line.Bye, you oneliner.
I think people here are judging a govt decisions.
Indoa hot both chinese and korean kit.
But there was delay from korean as whole world
is fighting for this kits.
Some times options are not existing.
If you delay one day we are loosing lockdown
period will extend loose more people.
We cant wait for best gun.in battle we have
fight with what u have or available.
Its easy to comment.
Just imagine if we behaved like US or Italy .
Thanks god. Its easy comment not easy to perform.
We have 1.2 bln. people which is adverse to çontrol
pandemic like this. Bharat mata ki Jai
Sasi Taroor and all others wasting time in doing slavery for Gandhi family. If any is real leader Congress party should make Rahul to sit home because Rahul sitting India not able to win even a single seat in Delhi polls. Only leaders can comment on Govt decisions not slaves.
Respomd to the points raised in the article if you can, otherwise best to keep quiet.
Don’t shoot the messenger if you don’t like the message.
oops!! you cannot comment then
We all should accept it s a mistake but no one tells about what next. Is our country going to get back our money. Is the government or any other parties trying to get instead of blaming and would also like to request each party or the fellow people how about the expats who are waiting to get back to their loved ones back in India.
It is better to you mr shashi to tell your boss that Not using zoom app and go for any indian app…. It is much easier to done…… That type of politics of congress couldn’t work and you will sit till 2029.
I fully endorse Dr. Tharoor here.
In Crisis, test of leadership is in its decision making ability. 2o % may be error.
This Chinese import is a major blunder.
And Information Highway among parliamentarians in India is very poor given their tu tu , main main attitude.
Lord assist us!
So essentially, he is saying Govt should wait till domestic options are available. For me I am not sure of quality of Indian products unless thoroughly tested (a legacy of Congress self sufficiency).
And asking for more testing anyway is a red herring, given the low positivist rates.
Wow what an argument. You dont believe in the quality of indian products but you put your trust in useless chinese products which have a 95 percent failure rate. Mind numbingly dumb and unpatriotic comment.
SHRI Tharoor is a brilliant person and I wish he was the leader of congress (i) in Loksabha. Sir would you support compulsory family planning measures with strict population control measures through law.
Well countered.
He waited long for the indian options but it was your leaders who pressurised the government to buy kits fast in order to increase testing. Don’t forget that Rahul is your party leader.
If you had bothered to read the article, it is clearly stated that SCIMST developed a testing kit, but inexplicably ICMR has been sitting on it for weeks .One has to wonder whether vested interests have come interplay to stop reaching the market.
It’s well known that Congress has already sold out to China and Pakistan.
Now the Congress spokesman is crying Wolf.
Mr. Tharoor, who do you think you are trying to fool??
And who do you think you are trying to fool, by hiding nehind fake names like Jack Mohammad? No Jack Mohammad, Jack, or Mohammad would write such a comment.. So who are you, and who are your paymasters?
Good job, here’s 5 rupees for your trouble. You are behind on your 100 comments a day target though which you are paid to do so speed up!
I think after demonetisation and now this lockdown it has become amply clear that implementation of decisions, planning and troubleshooting in non-political space is not this government’s strong point. The history is littered with instances of best decisions ruined owing to incompetence in their implementation.
How much money was spent?
These Congressi idiots have really nothing in hand towards positive contributions to any problem except sermons, preaching without practice, endless suggestions without being able to fathom the nature of the problem, doing all kind of futile researches of -this could have been done..that should have been implemented etc., ignoring the views of the entire world spectrum including WHO that Indian Govt is the best so far in handling COVID – 19.
Suddenly they appear to possess all wisdom and show off foolishly that they are so wise.
These nincompoops have no mission, vision or positive plan of action to any kind of problem. Really the bankruptcy is at the lowest ebb in Congress. Spare them from lock down and they will flood the space with press conferences, Shahin bagh support, Tukde gang sympathy and probably illuminating Iftaar parties with Owessis, Pathans, Khans and Syeds with exemplary minority appeasement culture. Leave it to Sadhus lynching case, these Cong stooges, Buddhu jibis, sickulars, award wapsis, HR activists will be found immaculately in oblivion as if holed up in their place of birth and origin at ante natal stage.
SHAME – SHAME – SHAME
Call out the government for its failed policies and the bhakts take you to the failed tukde tukde gang rhetorics. Guess who’s selling the nation? Purchasing Rs 35 crore failed test kits from China when the other countries clearly rejected them much before.
Congress was trying to make political gain by shouting from rooftop for rapid test. Only China had the capacity to supply. No other nation has surplus kits. GOI would not have gone for kits from China but for chest beating by Congress.
Congress should be ignored in future for its stupidity and actions detrimental to national interests.
Wrong, Pankaj. We could have ordered South Korean kits which have a better success rate and quality. Why is ICMR not approving domestic kits, have you thought about that? Doubt it.
o yeah, failed policies, indeed. ask your pappy whose failed policies has landed India in a ditch and now has to be pulled out.