States »NortPosted at: Jun 7 2021 10:54PM Punjab has become Covid scandal state: Chugh
Chandigarh, Jun 7 (UNI) BJP national general secretary Tarun Chugh on Monday hit out at the Amarinder Singh government for making Punjab a "Covid scandal" state.
In a statement he said after recording the highest mortality rate of Covid patients in the country last month it was a matter of shame that scandals about Covid kits have also started tumbling out of its cupboard.
He added that after the glaring incident of black marketing of vaccines by the Punjab government even Mission Fateh has become tarnished due to procurement of vaccines at higher rates despite the fact that vaccines at lower prices are available.
He said an alarming case of vaccination scandal has come to light now under which the state government floated tenders three times recently at higher rates.
On April 3 a tender for 16,668 Covid kits was floated at the rate of Rs 837.76 per kit. On April 20, without completing the term of first tender, another tender came about at the rate of Rs 1226.40 per kit for 50,000 kits. Within days another tender was floated for 1.5 lakh kits at the rate of Rs 1338 per kit.
"So a kit which was available for Rs 837 was purchased at Rs 1338, highlighting how the government was trying to commercialise the fight against Covid for unscrupulous reasons", he said and demanded a high-level inquiry into it.
Mr Chugh demanded a CBI inquiry into the entire exercise of the state government to detect financial and administrative lapses in fighting Covid-19.
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