Allow us to serve Covid patients: Tejashwi to Bihar CM

PATNA: RJD leader Tejashwi Prasad Yadav has sought government permission to all the legislators to serve Covid patients and their attendants in various hospitals, primary health centres (PHCs) and Covid care centres by providing them relief materials, besides opening centres and community kitchens for them.
Tejashwi, in his letter addressed to CM Nitish Kumar and released on social media, said some leaders were doing social service at community kitchens for the sake of photo opportunity. The leader of the opposition in the state assembly said he would like to personally supervise the activities of the legislators and appealed to the CM to see that the “government ensures that patients and their attendants are not inconvenienced and the administration and doctors do not stop their work”.
Tejashwi alleged that the health department had failed in providing beds, life-saving drugs and oxygen cylinders to the needy patients. He said the need for writing the letter and seeking prior permission had arisen because he himself had been “slapped with police cases on numerous occasions as and when he came out on the roads to raise the matters of public concern as his constitutional duty and right.”
Meanwhile, Hindustani Awam Morcha (Secular) spokesman Danish Rizwan countered Tejashwi, saying that he was “doing politics during the coronavirus pandemic” and should stop writing “ulool-julool” (nonsensical) letters to the CM.