New Delhi: Leaders of 12 opposition parties Wednesday, May 12, wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking a free mass vaccination campaign against COVID-19, and the suspension of the Central Vista project and divert the money to aid the fight against coronavirus.
A large number of farmers are sitting in protest at three borders of Delhi, seeking the farm laws passed by Parliament in September last year be scrapped.
Apart from Congress president Gandhi, the signatories include former prime minister and JDS leader H. D. Deve Gowda, NCP supremo Sharad Pawar, chief ministers Uddhav Thackeray (Shiv Sena), Mamata Banerjee (TMC), MK Stalin (DMK), and Hemant Soren (JMM).
Former chief ministers Farooq Abdullah (NC) and Akhilesh Yadav (SP) have also signed the letter, alongside Tejashwi Yadav (RJD), D Raja (CPI) and Sitaram Yechury (CPI-M).
The leaders have said the Covid-19 pandemic has assumed unprecedented dimensions of a human catastrophe in the country. They noted that they have in the past also suggested to the government the measures they believed were “absolutely imperative” for the Centre to implement to arrest the situation.
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