New Delhi: Former Union Minister and Congress chief P Chidambaram on Monday had attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi and claimed that no state had requested the Centre that it must be allowed to acquire vaccines immediately from producers. However, Chidambaram has backed down from his earlier assertion after a February letter by West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee began doing rounds on social media and stated that he was ‘unsuitable and stands corrected’.
“I told (news agency) ANI ‘please tell us which state government demanded that it should be allowed to directly procure vaccines’. Social media activists have posted the copy of the letter of CM, West Bengal to PM making such a request. I was wrong. I stand corrected,” Chidambaram stated on micro-blogging web site Twitter.
In this letter to PM Modi, Mamata Banerjee wished Bengal to be allowed to acquire vaccines by itself to fulfil its necessities for the vaccine.
In the letter which has surfaced on-line, Mamata Banerjee had written to PM Modi, “We would request you to kindly take up the matter with appropriate authority so that State government is able to purchase the vaccines from designated point(s) on top priority basis because the West Bengal government wants to provide vaccination free of cost to all the people,” Banerjee said in her February 24 letter. It is a point that she reiterated in subsequent months as well.”
However, the letter could not be verified by ABP News.
Chidambaram had criticised PM Modi on Monday and stated, “Nobody, but nobody said that [the] Centre should not procure vaccines. He (PM) now blames state govt saying – they wanted to procure vaccines so we allowed them. Let us know which CM, which state govt, on what date demanded that he should be allowed to procure vaccines.”
Mamata Banerjee was additionally a type of who took a jibe on the PM after his deal with however she didn’t touch upon the letter which has appeared on social media. Instead, She stated, “Took him (PM) 4 months but after much pressure, he has FINALLY listened to us & implemented what we’ve been asking all this while.”
In a serious announcement, the Prime Minister on Monday introduced that from June 21 onwards the Centre will present free vaccine to all Indian residents above 18 years of age.
PM Modi knowledgeable that the Centre will purchase 75 per cent of the entire manufacturing of the vaccine producers and supply to the states freed from value. He additionally stated that the system of 25 per cent vaccines being procured immediately by the non-public hospitals will proceed.
