Politicians started questioning the policy and demanded more control.
Let's consider the criticism for the vaccine policy by the opposition:- Vaccine makers were requesting government grants to expand facilities but were provided limited to no resource till last month. - Exporting vaccines was made a priority over vaccinating indians. - When indians realised there was a shortage of vaccine and started highlighting these issues, and the government realised that it wouldn't be able to meet the vaccine demands, they suddenly do a complete U-turn of their vaccine policy - the centre backs out completely out of price-fixing and procurement of vaccines without setting any framework in place. - Thus, completely abdicating their responsibility, they now expect each state government to haggle and negotiate the price directly, draw up individual contracts and get the vaccines. The opposition did their job in highlighting the deficiencies. Instead of listening and fixing the issues, the government deliberately passed the buck to the state government with a revised policy. It is clear they did it in such a manner (without any framework) so that they could transfer any associated political blame. The SC is not answerable to the people ... it does not have executive experience either.
Agreed that courts should be quite careful. But, in general, good judges don't make decisions arbitrarily. They listen to the executive, they listen to the critics, they listen to the state governments, and they also listen to the experts.That said, some stupid executive decisions can be over ruled with common sense and some have past precedents to follow. For example, it is very stupid to make people register for a vaccine - poor and uneducated people will not be able to do so and will be susceptible to corruption due to this unnecessary step. Common sense. We have one of the largest successful immunisation programs in the world and have successfully vaccinated a large number of people in the past. So we have past precedents on how to vaccinate our people. The vaccines should be free for everyone - common sense and past precedent. And so on. |