Lakhs Deprived Of Covid Vaccines In Bengal Due To Trinamool's Partisan Policies: BJP's Suvendu Adhikari

Claiming that at least nine lakh vials sent by the Centre were wasted, Suvendu Adhikari said Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had assured that the state will vaccinate everyone free of cost from May and even procure the jabs if needed.

BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari on Thursday slammed the ruling Trinamool Congress in West Bengal for depriving lakhs of the opportunity to get vaccinated against COVID-19, due to the state government''s partisan policies. Claiming that at least nine lakh vials sent by the Centre were wasted, Mr Adhikari said Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had assured that the state will vaccinate everyone free of cost from May and even procure the jabs if needed. "But, in a 360-degree turn, she has changed her stance and is now putting the entire blame on the central government for the tardy pace of inoculation in her state," he told health volunteers of the BJP at a meeting." "The TMC government has procured only a few lakh vials so far and other states have done far better on this front. The ruling party wants to engage in politics over human lives, the lives of 10 crore people of West Bengal," Mr Adhikari alleged.