The five Left parties on Saturday blamed Modi Government for “doing nothing” for the past one year to tackle the Covid crisis and “not listening to any one”. In a joint statement general secretaries of CPI(M, CPI, CPI (ML), RSP and Forward Bloc said that the Central Government has lost complete moral authority to continue in office, if they can’t deliver the need of the suffering people in the pandemic.
“One whole year has been wasted by this Government which did not heed any of our suggestions. Instead the Government promoted mega super spreader events. Now, India cannot afford to lose any more time. As the least minimum Government must immediately deliver on the above. Otherwise, the Central Government completely loses its moral authority to continue to remain in office,” said Sitaram Yechury, D.Raja, Dipankar Bhattacharya, Debabrata Biswas, Manoj Bhattacharya.
The Left leaders reiterated that the Government must fully utilise the budged `35,000 crore and full money from PM Cares Fund for to tackle the pandemic crisis and must stop the Central Vista project costing `20,000 crore.
They also said the Centre must invoke Compulsory Licensing to produce both vaccines and life saving drugs and must strictly control prices of essential drugs. “Direct transfer of ` 7,500 to all families in the non-income tax paying bracket and free distribution of foodgrains to all needy must be delivered to face the crisis,” said the Left leaders.