Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel has asked the centre should make it clear whether it will be providing vaccines to states for free or what will be the contract if the cost has to be shared between the centre and the states.
“We are following centre’s health department guidelines over how the vaccine will come and its distribution. Any questions over whether the vaccine will be free or not seem to be asked only to chief ministers and not to the union ministers. Is there any indication that the union government is not going to give the vaccine for free and the onus will be on states?,” Baghel said during the session on Thursday evening.
“We are following centre’s health department guidelines over how the vaccine will come and its distribution. Any questions over whether the vaccine will be free or not seem to be asked only to chief ministers and not to the union ministers. Is there any indication that the union government is not going to give the vaccine for free and the onus will be on states?,” Baghel said during the session on Thursday evening.
“It seems the centre is not going to spend on vaccines and is only going to issue guidelines like it has been happening till now. States like ours will do their bit the union government has to make it clear whether it is making vaccines available for free to states and if not what will be the share of expenditure between centre and states. If that also will not happen then why we should follow guidelines of the centre are all expense is to be borne by us? We will make our own guidelines,” he added.
“There is economic slowdown in the entire country, but we ensured that it is not there in Chhattisgarh. 7 lakh workers and others came to Chhattisgarh but only 26,000 left the state when the nationwide lockdown was imposed. We reached out to businesses and told them that workers should continue to be there,” he added.
Speaking at the 18th Hindustan Times Leadership Summit, Baghel also criticised Congress politians such as Kapil Sibal and Ghulam Nabi Azad for publicly attacking the party, and he also suggested that grievances should be laid out in the party’s internal forum.
