Reacting angrily to Azad's remark, Gujarat Health Minister Jaynarayan Vyas said: 'This is the wrong language and not befitting a union minister. He is behaving like a headmaster and this is not the procedure in the federal system.'

'We all know that there is a pandemic in the country. And the state and centre must cooperate... Bloody is an unparliamentary word. This is not fair on his (Azad) part,' Vyas, who had come outside the meeting hall after the health minister's address, told reporters.

Vyas said he asked the union health minister 'why he had used such language and he replied that it was not meant for all (state health ministers)'.

'Even if a state is performing the worst and is the biggest defaulter of all, why use such language... The union health minister could have briefed us over a cup of tea.'