Manish Sisodia lashed out on the BJP, saying the federal government was promoting vaccines overseas when folks had been dying within the nation.
A full-blown warfare of phrases broke out between the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday with each accusing one another of ‘deceptive’ folks over Covid vaccine availability in Delhi. The BJP slammed Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal for spending crores on ads and crying foul over shortage of Covid vaccine doses.
Addressing a digital press convention, BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra cited a RTI reply to say that the Kejriwal authorities has spent round Rs 805 crore on ads since 2015 however not opened a single new hospital within the metropolis.
He has been making day by day appearances on the TV, “misleading” folks and “lying”, Patra stated, attacking the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief.
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“You preserve promoting, claiming there won’t be any lockdown, no shortage of oxygen and that individuals shall be delivered oxygen at residence.
When you noticed that you simply can not management the state of affairs, then you definately pointed fingers on the Centre and washed your fingers of your accountability,” he stated.
Patra famous that Kejriwal had claimed on April 26 that his authorities will order 1.34 crore vaccines, which is price practically Rs 1,400 crore.
“Today, he’s saying he has nothing. Only 8. 93 per cent people over 45 years have got their second dose in Delhi. Only 48.03 per cent people over 60 years have received their first dose.Only 17 per cent people over 60 years have received second dose,” he stated.
Instead of pushing the vaccination programme in time, the Delhi authorities was busy promoting and is now doing politics over the provision of oxygen, Patra alleged.
‘Lies and deception’: Manish Sisodia hits again
Responding to Sambit Patra’s cost, Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia claimed that the BJP authorities on the Centre has allowed solely 3.5 lakh doses of coronavirus vaccine for the nationwide capital in May despite the fact that the AAP dispensation had positioned orders for 1.34 crore doses with producers.
The BJP is practising politics of ‘lies and deception’ and falsely accusing the Delhi authorities of ordering 5.5 lakh vaccine doses solely, he charged.
Sisodia stated that after the Centre determined in April that states can straight tie up with vaccine producers, the Arvind Kejriwal authorities ordered 1.34 crore doses to vaccinate folks within the 18-44 age group within the metropolis.
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“Later, the central government in a letter told us that we can have only around 3.5 lakh doses in May,” he claimed displaying letters of the Delhi authorities to vaccine producers and that from Union Health Ministry to it.
Sisodia lashed out on the BJP, saying the authorities was promoting vaccines overseas when folks had been dying within the nation.
(With PTI inputs)
