SAD President Sukhbir Singh Badal asks Punjab govt to buy vaccine doses worth Rs 1,000 Cr

The SAD President Badal was talking with the media after inaugurating the tenth COVID  Care centre at Khatunangal in the Amritsar district established by the SGPC.

Chandigarh: Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) President Sukhbir Singh Badal suggested that the state government should purchase vaccine doses worth Rs 1,000 crore to vaccinate the entire State in the next six months. He alleged that Punjab’s chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh and his ministers had gone into hiding during a period of crisis.  The SAD President Badal was talking with the media after inaugurating the tenth COVID  Care centre at Khatunangal in the Amritsar district established by the SGPC.  SAD’s Senior leader Bikram Singh Majithia, who was also there on the occasion, disclosed that besides the 25 bedded Covid Centre and creation of a separate Isolation ward for people who had been asked to isolate themselves, the party had also started Oxygen Sewa in the constituency with fifteen oxygen concentrators.