Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief JP Nadda on Friday (June 18) addressed the party’s Members of Parliament and party workers and urged them to expose the opposition’s plan to derail attempts to contain COVID-19 in the country. While lauding the work done under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to fight the pandemic, Nadda lashed out at the opposition for derailing steps taken by the Centre to defeat COVID-19.
“A big conspiracy was hatched against vaccination drive and war over pandemic. The opposition played politics. Why lockdown? Why no lockdown? Now the issue of calf serum in vaccine and suspicion on the vaccine,” he said. He also targeted opposition leaders for trying to derail the vaccination process. ”
On vaccination, Mamata Banerjee and Arvind Kejriwal said they want to buy vaccines themselves. PM Modi decentralised it. However, it was centralised again after the failure of states. People need to be told that we were serving people whereas opposition was derailing the process,” said Nadda.
Giving vaccines is the Centre’s task whereas to waste vaccines was the state`s task. They dumped the vaccine, he alleged.
“Manish Tewari and Shashi Tharoor promoted hesitancy and said we aren`t rats and guinea pigs. Society was made to fear the vaccination process,” stated Nadda.
“State governments were unsuccessful in following what was told to them and advisories sent to them, they were not alert enough,” he further added.
