Predictably, the BJP and its army of followers on social media platforms like Twitter – yeah, the same microblogging site that BJP apparatchiks have accused of propagating an alleged Congress-backed toolkit that defames India – hit back at Gandhi. Union minister Prakash Javadekar promptly jumped to defend the government, declaring that India will complete its Covid inoculation drive by December this year. Going by Javadekar’s claim and the facts on record, it won’t take a mathematics genius to compute that should the government, indeed, begin an aggressive vaccination drive today, it will need to execute an approximate 10 million jabs per day to meet the December 2021 deadline of universal inoculation. The average of vaccinations per day through the months of April and May has, so far, hovered between 2.9 and 1.9 million doses. But then, of course, if the Centre is saying it will achieve full vaccination by December 2021, this must be true – after all, Modi did say Covid can be defeated within 21 days and then went on to declare that India had, indeed, defeated the virus. But then the damned ‘behrupiya’ of a virus decided to make a comeback, how can the government be faulted for the crimes of a virus?