Thiruvananthapuram: Senior Congress chief Shashi Tharoor on Wednesday morning posted a video from his ‘sickbed’ focusing on the Centre’s vaccine coverage, he stated that India wants free vaccination for all.
The Congress MP for Thiruvananthapuram is presently recuperating after testing constructive for Covid-19 late April.
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He focused the centre’s plan to vaccinate all the nation by the tip of this yr and stated, “As you can see, I am in bed, suffering the complications of a long Covid infection. I just want to say to everybody, having seen the government statement that everybody will be vaccinated by end of December, while seeing the availability of vaccines or lack there of of the vaccines, I wonder how the government is going to get there.”
My message from my Covid sickbed: #SpeakUpForFreeUniversalVaccination pic.twitter.com/JjKmV5Rk71
— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) June 2, 2021
He additional said that he supported Congress’ name totally free vaccines, “I support the Indian National Congress’s campaign for a massive change in the government’s policy to permit universal vaccination of all Indians within the promised deadline of December, and to do so free of cost,” Tharoor stated.
“It is unacceptable that this government should be demanding that states, private hospitals and others compete in some sort of market free for all to buy vaccines at different prices, extortionate prices in some cases, when the central government has an arrangement to buy vaccines at affordable prices and give them to the public for free. That was the policy at the beginning of the vaccination drive”.
“Let us have a universal, free vaccination policy to save our nation from Covid. I have been through a lot. I don’t want my fellow citizens to suffer even a fraction of what I have done, and certainly not to do worse than me as so many have as the tragedy unfolded in the country,” he stated whereas referring to the devastating second Covid wave, which is affecting lakhs each day.
Finally he stated, “Save India from Covid. Make vaccines free for all,” in an virtually two-minute lengthy video.
After PM Narendra Modi addressed the nation by way of his month-to-month programme ‘Mann Ki Baat’ on the event of NDA authorities’s seventh anniversary, Congress occasion on Sunday slammed the BJP occasion launched a seven-point “charge sheet” of “blunders” and “criminal wrongdoings” which the occasion has accused the federal government of committing, and alleged that the Modi dispensation abdicated its tasks in direction of folks.
Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi stated that the federal government must have the best intention, coverage, and willpower to battle coronavirus pandemic – month-to-month speak will not suffice. The occasion has strongly criticized the BJP-led centre for the way in which it’s dealing with the Covid pandemic the distinction in costs and that each one states are required to purchase vaccines from the 2 producers.
