Now, Mamata’s picture on vaccine certificates in West Bengal
As the vaccination drive picks up in West Bengal, now certificates of COVID-19 vaccination issued by West Bengal Health Department have {a photograph} of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
The certificates issued by State authorities’s vaccination on wheels initiative, the place a bus has been transformed right into a cellular vaccination centre, have Ms. Banerjee’s {photograph}.
Along with the picture, the certificates has slogan “Be Alert, Be Safe” in each Bengali and English.
Vaccination certificates issued to date have carried images of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, which in the previous was criticised by the Trinamool Congress.
Minister and chairperson of Board of Administrators Kolkata Municipal Corporation Firhad Hakim defended the newest transfer saying that there’s nothing unsuitable in having {photograph} of the top of State on certificates.
BJP State spokesperson Samik Bhattacharya stated, “The Trinamool Congress wants to project that the place that our Prime Minister holds in our parliamentary democracy can be replaced by the Chief Minister.”
The Trinamool Congress and the BJP management additionally sparred over the GST (Goods and Service Tax) on vaccines by the Centre.
Meanwhile, the variety of new COVID-19 infections in West Bengal in the previous 24 hours dropped to 7,913. The variety of deaths additionally diminished to 113. Kolkata recorded 23 deaths in the previous 24 hours whereas North 24 Parganas recorded 25 fatalities. The numbers of each day infections in Kolkata have dropped beneath 1,000. The metropolis recorded 899 infections in the previous 24 hours whereas North 24 Parganas recorded 1,686 new infections. The energetic circumstances in the State have dropped to 53,023.