NEW DELHI: With senior Congress leader P Chidambaram withdrawing his remarks that “no CM had demanded to procure vaccines”, BJP on Tuesday said it has once again proved that the opposition leaders are filled with negativity and feeding people with a disinformation campaign.
“I told ANI ‘please tell us which state demanded that it should be allowed to directly procure vaccines’.
Social media activists have posted the copy of the letter of CM, West Bengal to PM making such a request.
I was wrong.
I stand corrected,” Chidambaram had tweeted on Monday soon after netizens circulated Mamata Banerjee’s letter dated February 24.
“Chidambaram is a senior leader and it is good that he has withdrawn his statement.
However, there are many remarks made by him which he should have withdrawn.
The Congress and its senior leaders have launched a campaign against the government, their only attempt was to weaken the country’s fight against the pandemic for which the opposition leaders will tender an apology to the nation,” BJP chief spokesperson Anil Baluni told TOI.
He said a veteran like Chidambaram, who has held responsible positions in the past, is making irresponsible statements, which shows his party is hell bent on creating obstructions in the country’s fight against the pandemic.
On Monday, Chidambaram had said, “Nobody, but nobody said that (the) Centre should not procure vaccines.
He (PM) now blames states saying — they wanted to procure vaccines so we allowed them.
Let us know which CM, which state, on what date demanded that he should be allowed to procure jabs.” TNN