Bhopal: Adv. Sharfuddin Ahmad, National vice president of Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI), in a statement has said that Uniform Civil Code (UCC),
The Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI), which claims to espouse the cause of Dalits, Muslims, Adivasis, backward classes and other vulnerable sections, on Wednesday moved the Supreme Court, seeking a direction to the Centre to ensure that Covid-19 vaccines are given free to every citizen as a matter of fundamental right.
The organisation, in a petition filed by its president Sharfuddin Ahmad through advocate Selvin Raja, has pleaded that only a pan-India free vaccine policy would help in combating the deadly virus as the concept of social distancing would not work in a densely populated country like India.
The petition added: “…By providing free Covid-19 vaccination, a large population, particularly the poorer sections of the society, would be vaccinated...”