Holding the Central Government for its “approach” responsible for leading to chaos across the country, the CPI(M) on Sunday asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for full utilisation of the budgeted Rs 35,000 crore and PM Cares Fund to control the “tsunami” of Covid pandemic.
“I understand that there may be financial considerations in taking these decisions. Immediately, spend the budgetary allocation of Rs 35,000 crores for the vaccination programme. I, implore you to forthwith cancel the project for the construction of the new Central Vista in Delhi, put on hold all extravagant expenditures and transparently release all the money collected under PM-CARES fund and transfer the same for the supply of oxygen and vaccines,” CPI (M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury said in his letter to the PM.
“In case you are unable to provide oxygen and vaccines to our fellow Indians and prevent further deaths, your government will lose its moral authority to continue. This health and humanitarian disaster is preventable and must be averted. This is the basic responsibility your government has to discharge, which it has failed to do so far,” added Yechury.
CITU leader Tapan Sen and Kisan Sabha leader Hannan Mollah also urged the Prime Minister to intervene on the current vaccination policy which is “putting profit over the precious lives of people in the wake of the severe health emergency” following the second wave of Covid -19 pandemic.