Remdesivir: RTI activist Saket Gokhale seeks police enquiry against Devendra Fadnavis
In a letter to Maharashtra s home minister, RTI activist Saket Gokhale questioned how a private individual like Fadnavis obtained Remdesivir stock from Gujarat when the sale is only permitted to the government.
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UPDATED: April 19, 2021 22:31 IST
Devendra Fadnavis said that the BJP had purchased 60,000 vials of Remdesivir with the intention of transferring them to the Maharashtra government (PTI Photo)
RRTI activist Saket Gokhale has written a letter to the Maharashtra home minister seeking a preliminary police probe into a purported Remdesivir order by the BJP as party leader and former chief minister Devendra Fadnavis claimed. Saket Gokhale demanded that the police should register an FIR if it found evidence of foul play in the case.
Remdesivir shortage to end, Telangana govt asks makers to ramp up production
TS is using 260 tonnes of oxygen per day, the requirement may go up to 350 tonnes: Eatala
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HYDERABAD: Telangana Health Minister Eatala Rajender said on Sunday that the shortage of
Remdesivir the injectable anti-viral drug that is touted to mitigate the replication of Covid-19 in the State is expected to end within a day. He was speaking to the media at the BRKR Bhavan in Hyderabad.
Rajender also said that he and MAUD and IT Minister KT Rama Rao had met the manufacturers of Remdesivir in Hyderabad and asked them to ramp up their production. Due to drop in
Mumbai: NCP alleges BJP involvement in Remdesivir mismanagement after Fadnavis ‘rescues’ detained drug supplier
NCP minister Nawab Malik alleged that the BJP is involved in mismanagement of the supply of Covid drug Remdesivir in Maharashtra after BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis ‘rescued’ detained drug supplier Rajesh Dokania on Saturday night.
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UPDATED: April 19, 2021 04:37 IST
NCP minister Nawab Malik alleged that the BJP is involved in mismanagement of the supply of Covid drug Remdesivir in Maharashtra. (Photo: File) (Representational Image)
Nationalist Congress Party minister Nawab Malik has alleged that the Bharatiya Janata Party is involved in the mismanagement of supply of Covid drug Remdesivir in Maharashtra. This comes after BJP leaders Devendra Fadnavis and Pravin Darekar got involved in the police investigation of Remdesivir supplier Rajesh Dokania on Saturday.
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While Maharashtra scales new highs of COVID-19 cases every day amid crumbling health infrastructure and shortage of medicines and oxygen, a fresh controversy has erupted over the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Devendra Fadnavis trying to procure the Remdesivir drug from a firm in Daman.
The Maharashtra Police on 17 April claimed that it was probing a case of alleged ‘illegal’ export of Remdesivir by Bruck Pharma, for which, the Maharashtra BJP later claimed that due permission was obtained by the party to procure it to be donated to the Maharashtra government.
The Mumbai police, the BJP, the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA), and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) are now engaged in a war of claims and counter-claims over the controversy, with the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) calling the BJP’s claims “suspicious.”