Taking a swipe at the Congress over its inside combat in Punjab, the BJP on Friday requested whether or not the occasion was dedicated to combat the COVID-19 pandemic in the state. ”Today, the complete (Congress) occasion and the federal government of Punjab are in Delhi. Who will take care of Punjab? Ignoring Punjab for his or her inside combat. This is a giant sin of Congress,” Union minister Prakash Javadekar instructed a press convention at the BJP headquarters.
This got here after Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh met a three-member committee, arrange by the Congress excessive command to resolve infighting in the occasion’s state unit, at All India Congress Committee (AICC) headquarters right here. The three-member panel is headed by the Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge and has AICC secretary normal in-charge of Punjab Harish Rawat and former MP J P Aggarwal as its different members. Singh had arrived in the nationwide capital on Thursday. Javadekar used the chance to goal Rahul Gandhi, saying the Congress chief, as an alternative of giving lectures to others, ought to first contemplate how to set issues proper in place in the state dominated by his occasion.
”I’d recommend to Rahul that as an alternative of giving lectures to others, he ought to first assume how works will be executed correctly in his state,” he stated. The BJP chief stated whereas Punjab is badly hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, there isn’t a correct administration of inoculation drive in the state. The state authorities can also be not paying enough consideration to testing and different measures that want to be taken to include the unfold, he alleged.
”For the final six months, an inside combat has been happening (inside the Congress in Punjab),” he stated. Referring to media reviews that claimed the Punjab authorities has allegedly bought some vaccines out of these procured beneath the state quota to non-public hospitals at the next price, Javadekar accused the Amarinder Singh dispensation of ”making a revenue” from vaccination.
”It’s harmful information. They (Punjab authorities) received over 1.40 lakh doses of Covaxin at Rs 400 every. And they gave among the vaccines to 20 non-public hospitals at Rs 1000 every. The state authorities desires to make a revenue from the vaccination. What sort of authorities is that this?” he charged. Javadekar stated the Centre has to this point given a complete of twenty-two crore vaccines to the states free-of-cost.
”They ought to listen to their administration so that individuals of Punjab get reduction. This is the demand and expectation of the folks at this time,” he added. Singh and his former cupboard colleague Navjot Singh Sidhu are engaged in a bitter disagreement. Sidhu has publicly attacked the chief minister over an SIT report on the sacrilege problem in Punjab.
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