As blame-game between the Maharashtra and Union authorities over provide of medical oxygen and Remdesivir drug to deal with crucial coronavirus sufferers continued, BJP leaders stepped in to hit out at Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) spokesperson Nawab Malik for elevating allegations in opposition to the Centre.
Malik, additionally a Maharashtra Minister within the Uddhav Thackeray-led dispensation, on Saturday took to Twitter alleging discrimination on the a part of the Centre and stated the latter has requested some export firms to not provide the Remdisivir drug to the state and warned them of cancelling their licence in the event that they didn’t adjust to the directive. To show his level, he posted a picture of a letter from the Food and Drugs Control Administration that he claimed a central authorities order issued to ‘one of the export companies’ to produce Remdesivir to Gujarat solely. However, the letter turned out to be one written by the FDA of the Gujarat authorities asking an organization (BDR Lifesciences Ltd) to produce the drug to the state, and never an order of the Central authorities.
Soon after, BJP MP Manoj Kotak shared photographs of two equivalent letters issued by the FDAs of the respective state governments of Maharashtra and Gujarat, stating the Centre has no position within the matter. He stated Malik’s act of “spreading misinformation during pandemic is criminal” and the latter shouldn’t contain politics when lives of public are at stake.
The letters issued by the FDA of the resp.states @nawabmalikncp1) Centre has no position in this2) BDR Pharma had utilized to Maharshtra and Gujarat Govt for permission Both state govts sanctioned the identical within the prescribed format as proven under pic.twitter.com/U28INkt5uq— Manoj Kotak (@manoj_kotak) April 17, 2021
BJP chief Poonam Mahajan additionally hit out at Malik saying the query of step-motherly therapy doesn’t come up right here and the MVA authorities, led by Shiv Sena, NCP and Congress, can solely blame the Centre when it fails to fulfil its personal position.
पत्र गुजरात सरकारचे. लिहिले गुजरात मधल्या कंपनीला. दोष केंद्राचा…आम्ही करणार काहीच नाही. फक्त दोष देणार केंद्र सरकारला…
अजब तुझे सरकार! https://t.co/IJwFTxZy3K
— Poonam Mahajan (@poonam_mahajan) April 17, 2021
Mumbai BJP spokesperson Suresh Nakhua additionally shared the 2 letters — one written by the BJP-led Gujarat authorities on April 12 and the opposite written by the Mava Vikas Aghadi dispensation on April 16 — to state that the the MVA authorities has not been immediate sufficient in coping with the disaster.
Nakhua stated the MVA authorities was busy in different actions as an alternative of controlling the pandemic and now it was crying foul because the state of affairs was going out of hand.
In a collection of tweets, Malik had additional stated, “It is sad and shocking that when Government of Maharashtra asked the 16 export companies for #Remdesivir, we were told that Central Government has asked them not to supply the medicine to #Maharashtra. These companies were warned, if they did, their license will be cancelled
Stating that this is a dangerous precedent, Malik further said, “…and under these circumstances, Maharashtra Government will have no choice but to seize the stock of Remdesivir from these exporters and supply it to the needy.”
Union Minister of State for Chemical and Fertilisers Mansukh Mandaviya then hit out at Malik saying the latter’s tweets are filled with half truths and his threats are unacceptable.
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