New Delhi, Apr 7 (UNI) The CPI(M) on Tuesday said that US President Donald Trump's threat of retaliation for easing restrictions on the export of vital generic drugs including Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) is a plain attempt at arm twisting and alleged that it's Centre surrender to the US interests.
'The government’s capitulation to this brazen blackmail undermines the vital concerns in our battle against the viral pandemic. This also signals yet another surrender to US interests,' the Polit Bureau of the Left Party alleged.
It further said in the recent past, the Union government has shown unplanned fiddling with the export of all sorts of PPE like surgical masks, gloves, ventilators etc with a disastrous impact on the safety of country's frontline health workers.