Photo taken on July 23, 2020 shows the White House in Washington D.C., the United States. (Xinhua/Liu Jie)

"America is a great nation, there are many great things about the United States, but there is something wrong about the politics of the United States, in which politicians resort to untruthful, harmful information and spread that information to their own population around the country, around the world," said Sudheendra Kulkarni, former chairman of Mumbai-based think-tank Observer Research Foundation.

NEW DELHI, July 25  -- "The coronavirus pandemic should not be politicized, much less should it be politicized for the purpose of winning an election" as U.S. politicians have been trying to do, an Indian expert has said.

"This is most unfortunate that this kind of politicization goes against the spirit of science," said Sudheendra Kulkarni, former chairman of Mumbai-based think-tank Observer Research Foundation, in a recent interview with Xinhua.

Kulkarni said it is only objective scientific research that can bring out the truth, but politicization of a pandemic of this kind comes in the way of global cooperation that is absolutely necessary today.

"The very global scale and scope of the pandemic has made global cooperation and global collaboration necessary," he said. "This is the time for the world to come together."