“Keep 3 Priorities – Vaccine, Vaccine, And Vaccine”: Derek O’Brien

New Delhi:

There is just one approach to sort out the raging Covid-19 pandemic, based on Trinamool chief Derek O’Brien, and that’s to prioritise three issues: “Vaccine, vaccine, and vaccine”. He, nonetheless, firmly blamed the central authorities’s politics for issues worsening.

West Bengal yesterday reported 7,713 new Covid-19 instances and 34 deaths, taking the general figures to six.51 lakh infections and 10,540 fatalities. The state can be in the course of a tightly fought Assembly election, with huge rallies advert roadshows being held by all political sides, largely ignoring the pandemic protocol.

Senior Congress chief Rahul Gandhi immediately tweeted saying he was suspending all public rallies within the state below these circumstances. He additionally suggested different political leaders to keep away from holding such occasions.

“I have no comments to make on Rahul Gandhi (suspending campaigns). We will stop our campaigns and we will allow Modi and Shah to campaign? We will let Bengal turn into Gujarat?” Mr O’Brien requested.

The Election Commission (EC) has now determined to curtail the timing of the marketing campaign for the remaining phases of the election and has prolonged the silence interval to 72 hours for every section. In its order, the EC has mentioned that no rallies, public conferences, avenue performs, nukkad sabhas, will likely be allowed on any day in the course of the days of the marketing campaign between 7 pm and 10 am.

Squarely laying the blame for the second wave on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah, the Trinamool’s Rajya Sabha MP accused the Centre for indulging in “vaccine diplomacy” when the states have been determined for them.