A day after the Centre sought a report from the West Bengal authorities on doubtful COVID-19 vaccination camps, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday mentioned that the state authorities was not related to them and questioned if the BJP had any hand in organising these camps. To defame West Bengal, the BJP-led authorities on the Centre is utilizing some companies to blow small issues out of proportion, Banerjee alleged.
The Union Well being Ministry has requested the West Bengal authorities to inquire into cases of COVID-19 vaccination camps being organised allegedly by unauthorised folks in some areas of Kolkata and submit a report within the subsequent two days. Union Well being Secretary Rajesh Bhushan wrote the letter to Chief Secretary Hari Krishna Dwivedi on Tuesday after the ministry’s consideration was drawn to the matter by Chief of Opposition within the state Meeting, Suvendu Adhikari of the BJP.
“The problem of the doubtful vaccination camps is an remoted case. The West Bengal authorities just isn’t related to them. We took immediate motion the second we obtained complaints,” Banerjee instructed reporters on the state secretariat. A number of individuals, together with the mastermind who was masquerading as an IAS officer, had been lately arrested for organising doubtful camps in Kolkata the place folks had been administered faux vaccine doses.
Apparently referring to the Well being Ministry’s letter to her authorities, Banerjee claimed that such communications weren’t despatched when vaccine doses had been administered in occasion workplaces of the BJP in Gujarat. “In Gujarat, vaccines had been administered in BJP occasion workplaces. What number of letters have been despatched by the Well being Ministry to them? What number of investigations had been carried out? When a state is doing effectively, they’re disturbing it,” she mentioned.
Banerjee, additionally the Trinamool Congress supremo, expressed doubt whether or not or not the BJP was concerned with organising the faux vaccination camps in Kolkata. “And the place is the proof that the BJP just isn’t behind this? The BJP retains pictures of TMC (leaders),” she mentioned.
The BJP had circulated pictures of Debanjan Deb, the prime accused within the doubtful vaccination camps case, with TMC leaders. Banerjee mentioned that no inference will be made on the idea of pictures as they are often edited “and such pictures can be utilized in doing enterprise”.
She mentioned that there could possibly be pictures of Deb with leaders of the BJP and different political events. “Sooner or later they are going to certainly come out. Whoever is behind such actions, regardless of the individuals political affiliation, will likely be handled strictly,” Banerjee mentioned.
Inoculating folks with faux vaccines is worse than a terrorist act, she mentioned. “The injections which had been pushed (in faux camps) had been antibiotics and never Covid vaccines. We hope that nothing unhealthy will occur to those that received it. The well being division is monitoring their well being situation and we are going to vaccinate them when medical doctors permit it. It’s the state authorities’s duty,” she mentioned.
The chief minister additionally accused the Union Well being Ministry of interfering within the state’s companies. Banerjee questioned what measures the central authorities takes when faux movies associated to violence floor.
There have been allegations that after the election outcomes had been introduced in West Bengal final month, a variety of movies containing visuals of violence that came about elsewhere had been handed off as these occurred within the state. “Solely when anybody posts tweets in opposition to any BJP chief, you then (central authorities) take motion by lodging FIRs and making arrests. Aside from that, you hardly do something,” she mentioned.
It was identified that in a number of the doubtful camps, and notably in Kasba locality of the Kolkata Municipal space, not one of the beneficiaries has obtained any vaccination certificates generated from Co-WIN, giving rise to apprehensions in regards to the genuineness of those vaccination camps, the Union well being secretary mentioned in his letter. He mentioned as per the rules, all vaccination classes for COVID-19 must be organised by means of the Co-WIN portal and all vaccinations must be recorded on Co-WIN too.
In his letter to the Union Well being Ministry, BJP chief Adhikari urged it to order a radical investigation by central companies into this vaccination fraud and punish the responsible. In the meantime, Banerjee condemned the assault of ladies in Jadavpur space of Kolkata by personnel of the central forces on Tuesday throughout the go to of an NHRC-formed committee to look into alleged human rights violations throughout post-poll violence.
“What occurred in Jadavpur? Why have the central forces crushed the ladies there? Nothing occurred there. I’ve nice respect for an establishment however they have to not act as BJP occasion members. That’s my fear,” she mentioned. Vice-chairman of Nationwide Fee for Minorities Ateef Rasheed, a member of the panel, had claimed that he and different members of a group had been attacked by some hooligans throughout a fact-finding go to to Jadavpur space.
A senior Kolkata Police official mentioned that some folks had raised slogans at Jadavpur however they had been faraway from the spot. Rasheed claimed that native police personnel had been to not be seen when the incident came about, whereas the TMC alleged that safety personnel assaulted agitators together with ladies.
