Bear entire cost of vaccine, Congress tells Centre
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D.K. Shivakumar condemns ‘silence’ of BJP MPs on the issue
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D.K. Shivakumar condemns ‘silence’ of BJP MPs on the issue
Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee president D.K. Shivakumar on Thursday demanded that the Central government bear the entire cost of COVID-19 vaccination drive and free the States from the financial burden.
“The Centre should bear the entire cost of the vaccine and take the responsibility of supplying it to States. All citizens should be given free vaccination,” he told mediapersons here.
Condemning the ‘silence’ of 25 BJP MPs and their ‘failure’ to put pressure on the Centre on supplying vaccine and drugs related to the pandemic, the Congress leader said the “double engine government” (BJP government in State and Centre) had not lived up to the expectations of the people. It had not supplied vaccine, oxygen, and ventilators adequately and had not pro
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Puri, in a series of tweets on Wednesday, said some of Congress leaders like Shashi Tharoor are betraying an almost childish stubbornness in admitting their fault about India s vaccine policy. The Congress party s narrative on the vaccines is getting increasingly bizarre by the day, Puri said.
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The war of words between the two leaders comes amid the Congress-BJP duel over the vaccine policy.
Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri and Congress MP Shashi Tharoor sparred on Twitter, with the BJP leader accusing Congress leaders of fuelling vaccine hesitancy and Tharoor hitting back, saying when will the Centre take responsibility for its manifest failures of policy rather than pointing fingers at the Opposition.