State’s explanation of vaccine wastage unacceptable: Stalin

‘AIADMK govt. is handling the second wave carelessly’

DMK president M.K. Stalin has said the explanation given by the Tamil Nadu government for wastage of COVID-19 vaccines is not acceptable. At a time when the State is facing a vaccine shortage, the news of Tamil Nadu topping the list in wastage comes as a shock, he said in a statement on Wednesday. He alleged that the AIADMK government was handling the second wave of COVID-19 carelessly as it did the first wave. He also voiced concern over the report that the Union government had diverted oxygen from Tamil Nadu to other States without consulting either the Chief Secretary or the “caretaker government”. Mr. Stalin wondered whether oxygen shortage was due to the careless attitude of the BJP government at the Centre or its administrative failure. The current situation also raised a question whether Prime Minister Narendra Modi was only bothered about the Tamil Nadu and West Bengal elections and not the pandemic, he said.