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TMC Leaders Get COVID Vaccine Shot Ahead Of Healthcare Workers In Bengal, BJP Cries Foul
In yet another controversy over COVID vaccine rollout, many healthcare workers alleged that they could not get the jab as several TMC netas got it first
In yet another controversy over COVID vaccine rollout, many healthcare workers in West Bengal alleged that they could not get the jab as several Trinamool Congress leaders, including two MLAs, were among the people who received the COVID-19 vaccine in Purba Bardhaman district on Saturday. District health officials said that these leaders are all associated with different hospitals as members of the Patients Welfare Committees, and therefore they are eligible for the vaccination programme in the first round. However, BJP s national general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya described the incident as loot .
West Bengal: War of words over COVID-19 vaccine continues between BJP, TMC
BJP leader Kailash Vijayvargiya (L) and Kolkata mayor Firhad Hakim (R) spurred over COVID-19 vaccine
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Kolkata: The BJP leadership on Sunday termed the ruling Trinamool Congress as âvaccine thievesâ. This comes a day after state chief minister Mamata Banerjee alleged that the BJP-led central government had sent fewer vaccine vials in West Bengal.
BJP central leader and West Bengal observer Kailash Vijayvargiya alleged that even after conducting several scams, the ruling Trinamool Congress is now trying to steal COVID 19 vaccines.
âCorruption and cut money are almost synonymous to the Trinamool Congress. Whereas on one side Prime Minister Narendra Modi is trying to safeguard the frontline health workers by providing the vaccinations to them first, several TMC MLAs were seen taking the vaccines, though it was not allotted to them. The vaccines are being looted. This prove
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Coronavirus Vaccine Drive Sparks Row in Bengal as More TMC Leaders Get Jabs Than Healthcare Workers
A health official shows a Covishield vaccine dose, after a consignment of the vaccine arrived from Serum Institute of India, in Tezpur (PTI Photo)
The vaccination drive at the Bhatar State General Hospital began with local TMC MLA Subhash Mondal getting the first shot. Later, former TMC MLA Banamali Hazra, Zilla Parisha Karmadakshya Jahar Bagdi and Bhatar Panchayat Samity Public Health in-charge Mahendra Hazra also received the vaccine. At Katwa Sub-divisional Hospital, local MLA Rabindranath Chatterjee of TMC was among the 34 people who received the vaccine on the first day.
Outrage As TMC MLAs, Leaders And Not Health Workers Get Covid-19 Vaccine On Day 1
BJP s district general secretary Ramakrishna Chakraborty said that in the first phase the frontline workers should get the vaccines. PTI Photo/Shashank Parade Outlook Web Bureau 2021-01-16T21:51:19+05:30 Outrage As TMC MLAs, Leaders And Not Health Workers Get Covid-19 Vaccine On Day 1 outlookindia.com 2021-01-16T22:16:44+05:30
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Several Trinamool Congress leaders, including two MLAs, were among the first few people who received the Covid-19 vaccine in West Bengal s Purba Bardhaman district in the first round of vaccination programme on Saturday, while many healthcare workers alleged that they were asked to come for the vaccine jab but could not receive it.