Trinamool Congress MP Saket Gokhale, known for peddling fake news who is also accused of Money laundering scam, sparked another controversy with a fresh claim against the Modi government. On Friday, 19th September, in a long post on X (formerly Twitter), he alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi lied to Indians during the COVID-19 pandemic by presenting vaccines as “free” when, according to him, they were not.
Gokhale claimed that the Government of India had borrowed billions of dollars from foreign banks to procure vaccines, and therefore, citizens were now repaying those loans through their taxes. He went further and described the PM CARES Fund as a scam, accusing the government of creating a “personal fund” for Modi that was kept away from public accountability.
This is not the first time that the TMC leader has attacked the Modi government on sensationalized charges. Gokhale, over the years, has acquired a reputation for distorting facts, producing doctored documents, and combining half-truths with speculation.
His latest post is no different. By selectively presenting details about India’s pandemic borrowings, he attempted to give the impression that citizens were tricked into believing the vaccines were free, while in reality, the government had simply followed a path taken by almost every country in the world facing a once-in-a-century health crisis.
In his post, Saket Gokhale wrote that the Modi government misled the nation by claiming vaccines were a “gift...
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