Congress chief Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Monday accused former Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis of hoarding Remdesivir, saying a BJP chief holding on to the drug at a time when individuals are scrambling to rearrange it’s a “crime in opposition to humanity”.

Taking to Twitter, the Congress basic secretary tagged a video of high Maharashtra BJP leaders, together with Fadnavis, arguing with police officers after the Mumbai Police questioned a pharma firm director following data that 1000’s of vials of the Remdesivir drug, crucial in COVID-19 therapy, had been to be flown in another country.

“At a time when folks from each nook of the nation are requesting for being supplied with Remdesivir, and plenty of are struggling to acquire a bottle of Remdesivir to avoid wasting their lives, a BJP chief, who was in accountable place, hoarding Remdesivir is a criminal offense in opposition to humanity,” Priyanka Gandhi stated in a tweet in Hindi.

The Mumbai Police on Sunday stated that they had data that the Remdesivir inventory was going to be flown overseas as air cargo, regardless of a ban on the export of the drug.

Whereas Chief of Opposition Fadnavis claimed the director was picked up as a result of the BJP managed to get permissions in place for the availability of the drug to Maharashtra, activist Saket Gokhale questioned how did a “non-public particular person like Fadnavis” procure Remdesivir inventory from Gujarat when the sale is allowed solely to the federal government.

The BJP objected to the pharma government’s grilling by the police, saying the state authorities was enjoying politics amid the pandemic.

On studying that the pharma firm director was being quizzed, Fadnavis and one other state BJP chief Pravin Darekar rushed to the police station.