Why Gates is not loved in India
Why are Gates and his foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Fundation (BMGF) not popular in India? For a number of rather serious reasons.
Well, the reasons are not a few. The last, the most serious , is that of having collaborated with local NGOs to carry out an experiment on people, circumventing local Indian legislation. The PATH foundation, which received $ 2.5 billion in grants from the BMGF from 1996 to 2021, is accused of causing the deaths of four girls in 2009 by injecting the papillomavirus vaccine. This test was part of a larger research, which also involved African and South American girls, and which sought to study the possible influence of ethnicity on the effectiveness of vaccines. The experiment was based on vaccines produced by Mercks which, coincidentally, was also one of the investments of the BMGF. The story is still alive in India, making the Gates less popular. But there is more.
As early as April 2021, Gates received criticism for expressing his reluctance to share COVID-19 vaccine technologies with developing countries such as India. After severe public criticism in India and overseas, BMGF CEO Mark Suzman has officially advocated a temporary waiver of the vaccine's intellectual property.
Then Gates was also criticized by groups of Indian farmers, who for six months have been protesting in the suburbs of the national capital New Delhi against the controversial laws promoting the privatization of agriculture approved by the Hindu nationalist government. Gates is a supporter of such efforts. Dainik Jagran, one of the largest Hindi newspapers in the country, reported on June 8 that farmers burned an effigy of Bill Gates at one of the protest sites because of his support for the privatization of agriculture in India. .
We add that Microsoft India will unfairly benefit from sections 4-2, 5, 7 and 17-2a of the controversial Farmers 'Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act of 2020. Farmers' organizations and Internet privacy groups have demonstrated that a memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed between Microsoft India and the Indian Ministry of Agriculture could potentially allow Gates' company to access a database of 50 million Indian farmers and their government-maintained land records. It is important to point out here that BMGF is also involved in several agricultural programs across the country, because vaccines weren't enough.
When Gates visited India in November 2019, he met with Modi and several other government officials and the excellent relationship between the two is known. The BMGF has since forcefully entered the Indian Ministry of Health through the Modi government's approval of a Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) between the Department of Family Health and Welfare (DOHFW), the Government of India and the BMGF on cooperation. in the field of health. Even then Indian Interior Minister Rajnath Singh, one of the most powerful members of Modi's cabinet, urged Gates to adopt 1,000 villages in central India damaged by left-wing riots in 2017. That sounds like a good work, but meanwhile, it is experienced as a very strong external interference. But let's continue.
In his exclusive interview with the Press Trust of India (PTI) during his visit in November 2019, Gates praised three vaccine manufacturers in India: the Serum Institute of India (SII), Bharat Biotech and Biological-E. All three private, for-profit vaccine manufacturers that benefited from the world's largest COVID-19 vaccination program that put in place by the Indian government. SII has received BMGF grants since November 2012. It received an additional grant of $ 4 million in October 2020. Bharat Biotech received a grant of $ 19 million from the BMGF in November 2019. Biological-E Limited has been a beneficiary of Ba MGF since 2013. It received a $ 37 million grant in April 2021 from BMGF.
The problem is that these companies financed with BMGF funds are private companies that have made substantial profits with the covid-19 vaccines, so much so that they have triggered the request for investigations from the part of the Congress Party that opposes that of Modi.
Now you understand why Bill Gates and his foundation are not very popular in the Indian subcontinent: always on the side of the power they use to hide their misdeeds.
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