Direct Centre to ensure free vaccination for all, Alagiri urges President

TNCC president K.S. Alagiri on Friday wrote to President Ram Nath Kovind, urging him to direct the Narendra Modi-led Central authorities to ensure common free vaccination towards COVID-19 for each citizen. The authorities must also ensure that one crore persons are vaccinated on daily basis, which is the one approach to defeat the pandemic.

“COVID-19 has caused unprecedented devastation and immeasurable pain to nearly every Indian family. Tragically, the Modi government has completely abdicated its duty of fighting coronavirus and abandoned the people. The truth is that the Union BJP government is guilty of criminal mismanagement of COVID-19,” Mr. Alagiri stated.

The Modi authorities’s vaccination technique had been “a dangerous cocktail of blunders and bloopers”, he stated.

The authorities intentionally created a digital divide, thereby slowing down vaccination, and was additionally wilfully complicit in creating a number of pricing slabs for the identical vaccine. The Centre and the States had until date ordered solely 39 crore vaccines for a inhabitants of 140 crore. The common tempo of vaccination was 16 lakh per day, at which tempo it’s going to take three years to vaccinate the grownup inhabitants, the Congress chief stated. “The only way to save people’s lives is to vaccinate the entire adult population on or before December 31,” he added.

A delegation of leaders of the Puducherry Pradesh Congress Committee submitted a memorandum addressed to the President, in search of his intervention within the vaccination programme to ensure that at the very least one crore persons are administered the jabs on daily basis below a common free immunisation programme.