: Centre depriving West Bengal of vaccines, giving more to BJP-ruled states, alleges Mamata Banerjee #IndiaNEWS The Centre is providing more Covid-19 vaccine doses to Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled states

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Centre depriving West Bengal of vaccines, giving more to BJP-ruled states, alleges Mamata Banerjee #IndiaNEWS
The Centre is providing more Covid-19 vaccine doses to Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled states while depriving West Bengal of them, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee alleged in a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday, according to PTI. Banerjee said in her letter that 4 lakh vaccine doses were being administered in West Bengal every day and the state had the capability to increase the number to 11 lakh. “Yet we are getting much lower number of doses despite having a very high population density and a higher rate of urbanisation,� she added.“I am sorry to say the central government is providing a larger number of vaccine doses to states like Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Karnataka, which are BJP-ruled,� Banerjee claimed. “I have no problem if they or any other state for that matter receives higher number of vaccine doses, but I cannot remain a mute spectator to see Bengal deprived.�The West Bengal chief minister claimed that her requests to the Centre to provide more vaccines to her state had not received the due attention. ‘At present, Bengal needs around 14 crore doses of Covid-19 vaccine to cover all the people in the eligible categories,� she said, according to PTI. “However, we have received only 2.68...Read more

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