Bengaluru: On Tuesday, the Karnataka Congress launched ‘Let Congress Vaccinate’, an online campaign to create awareness about the importance of vaccination against Covid and to pressurize the government to allow it to directly procure them according to their Rs 100 crore plan. As part of the social media campaign, state Congress President D K Shivakumar, former Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, Working President Eshwar Khandre, former ministers R V Deshpande, among other party leaders, shared video messages highlighting the BJP government’s “failure” to procure vaccines and inoculate people against the virus.
The party, in a release, claimed that more than 20,000 people lent their support to the campaign today and shared their videos on Twitter and Facebook, asking the BJP government to permit Congress to procure directly and vaccinate the people of Karnataka.
“I request Congress workers to make people aware of how vaccination can defeat Covid, how the government has been slow in procuring vaccines, and how the Karnataka Congress has a proposal to directly procure vaccines if only the government would let us,” Shivakumar said. Leader of the Opposition in the assembly Siddaramaiah alleged that the BJP government has failed miserably in the Covid front. “It is a proven fact that people can be protected from Covid by vaccination. The BJP government has botched up the vaccination process and left the people of Karnataka in a miserable condition. Today there is no system in place and people have to fend for themselves,” he said.
