While addressing a rally in Uttar Pradesh's Bahraich on Thursday, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said that Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav mocked COVID-19 vaccines, while PM Narendra Modi backed scientists during the pandemic. "Yadav urged people to not take the vaccines by calling them 'Modi vaccines'," Shah said. He further said that Yadav took the vaccine "out of fear".