HYDERABAD: BJP national vice-president D.K. Aruna on Monday came down heavily against IT minister K.T. Rama Rao for his claims on vaccination and for spreading lies through Twitter.
Addressing the media virtually, she said that the minister was trying to shirk away from the responsibility of controlling the pandemic and blaming the Centre for the surge in positive cases..
“Have you visited Bharat Biotech at least once? Have you helped it to increase production? You are unable to digest the fact that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has visited Bharat Biotech,” she said.
She said that though Rao holds the industries portfolio, he has done precious little to bolster production of the vaccine in the state. She took exception to Rao’s charge that vaccines are being supplied to other nations.
Aruna charged that Rao was behaving like a ‘Twitter Minister’ instead of as a responsible member of the state cabinet. She said that there is a dearth of staff across government hospitals but authorities were not bothered about filling up vacancies, which is adding to the workload of the existing staff.
She said it seems like the state government wants to buy costly vaccines from foreign countries only to make money. She wanted to know why the state government had not implemented the Ayushman Bharat Scheme.
Aruna advised the state government to motivate rural people to shed their fears and come forward to take vaccines. She also advised them to urge vaccine manufacturers to supply the required quantity of doses to Telangana.
