Change of tack: Jagan Reddy now asks CMs to speak in one voice over vaccine procurement

Having confronted bother in procuring vaccines, Jagan Reddy wrote to different Chief Ministers together with Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan saying that the state of affairs has remodeled right into a ‘States vs Union’ concern.

Days after Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik wrote to Chief Ministers of all states asking them to unite over vaccine procurement, now Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Jagan Mohan Reddy has requested his counterparts to talk in a single voice on the difficulty. States like Odisha, Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh had floated international tenders for procuring vaccines. Having confronted bother in procuring vaccines, Jagan Reddy wrote to different Chief Ministers together with Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan saying that the state of affairs has remodeled right into a ‘States vs Union’ concern. He stated that states now have to ‘communicate in a single voice’.

“It’s my request that as Chief Ministers, we communicate in a single voice and urge the Authorities of India to take cost and accountability of the vaccination drive, the way in which it was occurring within the early a part of the 12 months,” he stated.

Andhra Pradesh has witnessed a sluggish vaccination drive and the worldwide tender has obtained no response, leaving it on the mercy of Centre’s vaccine quota.

The letter is available in stark distinction to Reddy’s tone from a month in the past when he countered Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren for focusing on PM Narendra Modi. Soren had stated on Could 6 that PM Modi referred to as him and solely spoke his thoughts with out bothering to hear. Responding to his tweet, Jagan Reddy had stated that these are the occasions to not level fingers however to return collectively and strengthen the fingers of our Prime Minister to successfully fight the pandemic.

Nevertheless, in a letter written to CMs yesterday, Reddy termed the Centre’s determination to permit states to determine on vaccine procurement as ‘unwarranted’ particularly when there are such a lot of constraints in vaccine manufacturing. He stated that the vaccination drive itself has been ‘suffering from a number of coordination points’.

He stated {that a} centralised and coordinated vaccination drive supported by the state would result in higher outcomes for the individuals of India.