From Our Special Correspondent
Daijiworld Media Network

Bengaluru, May 25: Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee on Tuesday launched a massive online campaign – ‘Let Congress Vaccinate’ - to create public awareness about the importance of vaccination and build pressure to allow the Congress in Karnataka to directly procure the vaccine with their Rs 100 crore plan.

KPCC president D K Shivakumar, former chief minister, Siddaramaiah, KPCC working president, Eshwar Khandre, former ministers R V Deshpande, Sharan Prakash Patil, Shanti Nagar MLA, N A Harris, Chittapur MLA, Priyank Kharge, MLCs B K Hariprasad and VS Ugrappa shared their video messages to highlight BJP government’s failure to procure vaccine and inoculate people in this pandemic.

More than 20,000 people have already lent their support to the campaign on the day of the launch and shared their videos on Twitter and Facebook asking the BJP government to permit the Congress party 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. #LetCongressVaccinate,” DK Shivakumar said in a tweet.

“BJP has not made enough vaccines available to Karnataka, choosing to export them instead for their own narrow PR gains. The consequence of this is that the health and well-being of our people have been compromised, thereby increasing the mortality rate in our State due to Covid,” Shivakumar said asserting that “the Congress is firm on its Rs 100 crore plan.

"This fund shall be utilised to directly procure vaccines from manufacturers and administer them to the people of Karnataka,” he said.

“The Congress party has been repeatedly asking for permission for vaccination from the government but we have not been granted it yet. On behalf of the Congress party, we need your wholehearted support so that we can build pressure on the government and we are able to show to them how vaccines can be procured and administered to people - in a totally transparent, fair and efficient manner,” KPCC president said.

Former chief minister, Siddaramaiah also asserted that the BJP government has failed miserably to 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,” Siddaramaiah said in the video shared on Twitter.

The IT team scanning the campaign revealed that people across 31 districts of Karnataka shared their videos supporting Congress appeal to 'Let Congress Vaccinate' the people of Karnataka.