The Bharatiya Janata Party, BJP, today hit back at the Arvind Kejriwal-led Delhi government saying that it desires to hide its failures by accusing the Centre. Addressing a virtual conference, BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra stated that the AAP government and the Congress are attempting to develop confusion about the vaccine. “Till yesterday, around 6.63 crore vaccines were exported. Questions were raised as to why vaccines were sent out of the country. These vaccines have been sent in two categories. Only 1 crore vaccines have been sent as aid. More than 5 crore vaccines have been sent as a liability. The two vaccine manufacturing companies had imported raw materials from outside the country. At this time, they signed an agreement that when this vaccine will be ready, some of that vaccine will be given to those countries as well. This is a commercial liability,” stated Patra.
Patra added that India has provided 78.5 lakh vaccines to the neighbouring 7 nations even though 2 lakh doses have been provided to the UN Peacekeeping force simply because more than 6,000 soldiers of our nation are working for peacekeeping in diverse nations.
Patra also hit out at the Delhi government immediately after it shared the Bharat Biotech letter alleging denial of more vaccine provide. He stated that even the Bharat Biotech letter says that the AAP government has expressed interest to procure Covaxin but has neither placed an order nor made any advance payment.
भारत में वैक्सीन बनाने वाली 2 कंपनियों ने पहले से ही देश के बाहर से रॉ-मैटेरियल लिया था। इस वक्त करार हुआ था कि इससे जब वैक्सीन तैयार होगी तो उसमें से कुछ वैक्सीन उन देशों को भी दिया जाएगा। ये industrial liability है।
– डॉ @sambitswaraj#IndiaFightsCorona pic.twitter.com/C3cRGp89GU
— BJP (@BJP4India) May 12, 2021
He stated that this is no time to do politics and India really should stand united in this pandemic. Rubbishing Manish Sisodia’s claim that Delhi was provided only 3.5 lakh vaccines by the Central government, Patra shared official information displaying that Delhi has been provided about 8 lakh vaccines by yesterday.
Notably, the Delhi government of the Aam Aadmi Party came down heavily on the central government today immediately after Bharat Biotech refused to provide more vaccines to Delhi. “We had demanded 1.34 crore doses of vaccines – 67 lakhs each of Covaxin and Covishield. Bharat Biotech wrote to us yesterday that they can’t provide vaccines to us,” stated Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, quoting Bharat Biotech’s letter which reads ‘we are making dispatches as per directives of concerned Government officials’.
The Aam Aadmi Party shared Bharat Biotech’s letter on its Twitter deal with. The letter reads, “There has been an unprecedented demand for our vaccine and in spite of increasing production every month, we are unable to keep up with the demand. Further, we are making dispatches as per the directives of the concerned Govt. officials. We therefore sincerely regret that we cannot make any additional supplies as required by you.”
“I don’t know how much is being supplied to other states but they’ve written to us that they can’t provide it to Delhi because they have to supply as per Central Government,” claimed the Delhi Deputy chief minister.
COVAXIN ने केंद्र के आदेशों पर दिल्ली को Vaccine देने से मना कर दिया!
Supply में रुकावट के वजह से दिल्ली के 17 स्कूलों में one hundred Vaccination Centre बंद होंगे!
विदेशों को 6.6 करोड़ Vaccine Export कर दी लेकिन दिल्ली को 67 लाख COVAXIN नहीं दे रही केंद्र सरकार! #ModiKaVaccineDisaster pic.twitter.com/oK0KF0sNri
— AAP (@AamAadmiParty) May 12, 2021
Sisodia claimed that Delhi’s reserve stock of vaccine has been exhausted. “The centres administering Covishield vaccines are functioning but we have had to close the centres administering Covaxin. So, we have had to close down more than 100 centres across 17 schools,” stated Manish Sisodia.
Sisodia stated that the Centre really should act as the government of a nation and should carry out their duty and quit all vaccine exports.
He reiterated his stand that exporting 6.6 crore doses of vaccine was the largest error of the Central government.
Yesterday, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal wrote to PM Narendra Modi urging him to use Patent Law to obtain the vaccine formula from Bharat Biotech & Serum Institute of India. He urged the Centre to share the formula with all certified producers so that the manufacturing of vaccines can be ramped up.