Patna: Tejashwi Yadav converts official bungalow into Covid care centre
RJD chief Tejashwi Yadav on Wednesday declared that he has arrange a COVID care centre at his official bungalow and urged the Nitish Kumar authorities in Bihar to offer help for improve of the amenities obtainable there.
Yadav, chief of the opposition within the state meeting, shared the letter addressed to well being minister Mangal Pandey on his twitter deal with and mentioned he has additionally despatched a replica of the identical to the Chief Minister.
In the letter, Yadav, a former Deputy CM himself, mentioned he has received the bungalow located at 1, Polo Road geared up with “basic facilities” like beds, oxygen cylinders, normal medicines and meals for sufferers to be admitted there and their attendants.
“I would request the government that additions be made to the amenities in consultation with medical experts”, mentioned the 32-year-old who has emerged because the de facto chief of the occasion based and headed by his father Lalu Prasad.
In the letter, Yadav lavished reward on his occasion legislators and workplace bearers for “reaching out with help to the needy” throughout the pandemic and added that he anticipated the federal government to “act without political prejudice and keep me informed about the steps it was taking” to make the COVID care centre on the bungalow totally practical.
Notably, the bungalow at 1, Polo Road was allotted to Yadav two years in the past when he was compelled to vacate his Desh Ratna Marg home, located adjoining to the chief minister’s official residence, after his plea towards the federal government order to the impact was turned down by the court docket of regulation.
Yadav had been occupying 5, Desh Ratna Marg since 2015 when he turned the Deputy CM, a submit he was stripped of two years later following Nitish Kumars abrupt return to the NDA.
The younger RJD chief, who seemingly took affront on the entire episode, kept away from occupying 1, Polo Road, and most well-liked to stick with his mom Rabri Devi at her 10, Circular Road.
Yadav was berated by BJP Rajya Sabha member Sushil Kumar Modi, who had served because the Deputy CM for many a part of Nitish Kumars first decade and a half in energy.
In a few tweets, Modi, a bte noire of Lalu Prasad, sought to know why a number of homes allegedly owned by members of the RJD supremos household haven’t been positioned within the service of COVID sufferers.
Taking a jibe at medical levels held by two of Yadavs seven sisters, Modi additionally requested why weren’t they coming ahead to supply their service in throughout the ongoing disaster.
Interestingly, 1, Polo Road was occupied by Modi whereas he was the Deputy CM and he continued to operate from there even throughout the interval the BJP was out of energy within the state.
He was allotted 5, Desh Ratna Marg bungalow after it was vacated by Yadav and the wily BJP chief famously took a crew of journalists on a tour of the bungalow to underscore his allegation that Yadavs petulance in letting go of the federal government constructing stemmed from his splurge on getting it furnished in line with his personal style.
Former chief minister Jitan Ram Manjhi, heading Hindustani Awam Morcha, a ruling NDA constituent within the state, additionally took a swipe at Tejashwi Yadav for changing his official bungalow into COVID ward.
“Shunning politics, you should arrange for doctors there. In case you fail to find medicos, ask your PMCH topper family members to run the facility,” he mentioned wryly.
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