Haryana’s ML Khattar Says Arvind Kejriwal Gives Out Vaccines ‘Too Fast’

New Delhi:

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who has been red-flagging the scarcity of vaccines within the nationwide capital over the previous couple of weeks, has been accused of indulging into politics by the BJP’s ML Khattar, his Haryana counterpart. “My objective is to avoid wasting lives, not vaccines,” Mr Kejriwal tweeted right this moment in a pointy response to ML Khattar.

Mr Khattar in a televised briefing on Sunday was apparently referring to the Delhi authorities’s choice a couple of week in the past to pause vaccination for the 18-44 age group and quickly shut vaccine centres.

“It was simply drama when he mentioned ‘all vaccine centres will probably be shut from tomorrow as a result of we aren’t getting doses’. I consider Delhi’s share is way bigger than different states.”

“Like different states, ought to we additionally end all 2 lakh doses in a day? We use 50,000-60,000 doses a day. All this… Arvind Kejriwal ought to see. However his intention is to bask in politics and he does that. No person ought to play politics throughout a pandemic,” the BJP chief additional mentioned, suggesting that Delhi was giving out vaccines “too quick”. 

खट्टर साहिब, वैक्सीन से ही लोगों की जान बचेगी। जितनी जल्दी वैक्सीन लगेंगी, उतने लोग सुरक्षित होंगे। मेरा मक़सद वैक्सीन बचाना नहीं, लोगों की जान बचाना है। pic.twitter.com/WnWGxyIJ7O

— Arvind Kejriwal (@ArvindKejriwal) May 31, 2021

The video was shared by Mr Kejriwal together with a response. “Khattar Sahab. It is just with vaccines that we are able to save lives. Extra individuals will probably be secure as soon as they’re vaccinated. My objective just isn’t save vaccines however to avoid wasting lives,” the Delhi Chief Minister wrote in Hindi. The Chief Ministers of the 2 neighbouring states have sparred previously over completely different points.

A couple of week in the past, Arvind Kejriwal had written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on scarcity of vaccines and mentioned the nationwide capital wants 80 lakh doses each month but it surely had obtained solely 16 lakh doses.

“For June, our share has been lowered additional to eight lakh doses,” he mentioned, stressing that it’ll take 30 months to vaccinate your complete metropolis if it will get 8 lakh doses a month. Delhi quickly halted vaccination for the 18-44 age group.

BJP chief JP Nadda on Sunday had additionally hit out at Delhi’s ruling Aam Aadmi Social gathering with out naming its chief, Mr Kejriwal, or the occasion. “These are the individuals who, within the identify of vaccines, as soon as broke India’s morale, Delhi’s morale,” he mentioned in a video message.

Amid criticism over gradual tempo of vaccination, the central authorities has mentioned 12 crore doses will probably be obtainable in June.