Karnataka Minister
Karnataka’s minister for agriculture, Mr. BC Patil recently took his covid vaccine shot at his residence which triggered controversy on Tuesday. the images and videos of health officials administering the covid-19 vaccine shot to the minister have been doing rounds on the internet and flooded the social media with outrage upon the ‘misuse of power’ by the minister. the minister’s wife was also vaccinated at home.
In a statement to the media, the minister has responded by saying that there were many people in the house and he had to wait for around half an hour at the hospital asserting that as the prime reason for him taking the vaccine shot at home. He further added that there were certain privileges and his decision to take the vaccine at home can not be considered ‘wrong’. Patil also said that he himself called up the health officials to his residence in order to get vaccinated.