Vaccine Van Diverted As Trinamool Chief Blocks Freeway In Bengal: File

Kolkata:

A unique car wearing COVID-19 vaccines needed to be diverted on Wednesday in West Bengal’s Purba Bardhaman district because of a blockade of the nationwide freeway led by means of the state minister, Siddiqullah Chowdhury, who used to be protesting towards the brand new farm rules, assets stated.

Purba Bardhaman’s Superintendent of Police Bhaskar Mukhopadhyay stated that the vaccine-carrying insulated van used to be diverted over a distance of 5 km via a village on account of the blockade of the nationwide freeway, connecting Kolkata and New Delhi.

Unofficial assets, alternatively, claimed that the car needed to traverse village roads for a distance of 20 kms ahead of it may well be introduced again at the nationwide freeway.

After leaving the state executive’s vaccine retailer in Kolkata, the car delivered 31,500 vaccine doses at Purba Bardhaman district well being workplace and used to be on its strategy to ship the life-saving drug to Bankura and Purulia when the incident came about.

“Minister Siddiqullah Chowdhury blocked coronavirus vaccine these days on account of his political hypocrisy. On account of this, the car wearing the vaccine needed to be diverted. Who would were accountable if because of any coincidence or every other reason why, the vaccine had were given destroyed?” BJP chief Kailash Vijayvargiya stated in a tweet in Hindi. 

Mr Chowdhury, the state library services and products minister, stated he used to be now not conscious about the motion of the vaccine van and cleared the street as soon as it used to be delivered to his understand, however by means of that point it used to be already diverted.