Chandigarh, May 14
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) senior leader and Leader of Opposition (LoP) in the Punjab Assembly, Harpal Singh Cheema said that the vaccination camps set up by the ruling Congress leaders at various places in the name of protection against Covid was gross violation of the rules of the health department. He said that the Congress leaders should stop messing with the lives of the people by setting up non-standard immunisation camps. In a statement issued here on Friday, Harpal Singh Cheema said that it was not a crime to help the people during the pandemic but great work like immunisation should be done by the employees of the health department as per the guidelines.
Cheema said that some Congress leaders in the state had been setting up vaccination camps at various places to protect the people from Covid, but these camps do not follow the instructions of the health department and do not maintain transparency. “On the contrary, nepotism of the Congressmen is at the forefront during the vaccination camps,” he added. Cheema said that the situation in Punjab was deteriorating due to Covid pandemic for which the Captain Amarinder Singh-led Congress government was responsible. He said that today there was a shortage of doctors, nurses, paramedical staff as well as life saving equipment, oxygen gas and medicines in the government hospitals of the state; but on the other hand, the Congress leaders were pretending to hold vaccination camps to brighten up their politics as only the relatives of the leaders were vaccinated instead of the common people.
The AAP leader further said that in fact, the Congress leaders had got into the habit of hoarding. “During the first wave of Covid last year, the Congressmen kept ration bags with the photograph of Chief Minister and other items in their possession, which did not reach the needy families,” he asserted. Cheema said that the Congress leaders should refrain from distributing anti-corona drugs and rations in their own way. He said the government and the Congressmen should learn a lesson from the last year’s Covid wave and allow the employees of the health department, civil supplies and other departments to work impartially to combat the pandemic.
