Devendra Fadnavis' 23-year old nephew gets Covid-19 vaccine shot, stirs row in Maharashtra

Fadnavis' nephew Tanmay Fadnavis had shared a picture on his Instagram profile, revealing that he was taking a shot of the vaccine while only people aged 45 or more and frontline workers are eligible to get the jab before May 1.

Tanmay reportedly took the first shot of the vaccine in Mumbai and the second one at the National Cancer Institute in Nagpur.

After the pictures went viral on social media, the Maharashtra Congress has launched an attack on the BJP, which is presently ruling the country but out of power in the western state.

The party has put up a tweet, "The Modi government has made it a condition to vaccinate only people above 45 years of age. In such a situation, how can Fadnavis's nephew who is less than 45 years of age get vaccinated?

"The lives of BJP leaders' families are important. So what about other people? Isn't their life worth anything!"

Priyanka Chaturvedi, an MP of the ruling Shiv Sena, tweeted, "Even the Prime Minister waited for his turn to get vaccinated, didn’t flout rules but Fadnavis ji works by his own rules.Same for journalists who should have ideally been considered frontline workers yet not vaccinated while they report from the field because privileged they aren't."

Earlier Fadnavis, who has remained the Maharashtra Chief Minister for five years, was caught in a controversy after he landed in a police station on a Saturday night after police seized consignment of Remdesivir, an antiviral medicine approved for an emergency use to treat Covid-19.

A team of Mumbai Police from Vile Parle Police Station detained an executive of a pharmaceutical company, named Bruck Pharma, on Saturday, upon receiving information that the company was hoarding the medicine.

Following the arrest, Fadnavis had reached the police station.

The former Chief Minister was later accused of influencing the police personnel and interfering into the investigation process.

However, the opposition leader claimed the BJP had procured 60,000 vials of Remdesivir and wanted to hand it over to the police.