Ranchi: In view of the possible threat of corona infection increasing again in the country, Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a meeting with the Chief Ministers of many states on Wednesday where Health Minister Banna Gupta represented Jharkhand.
After the meeting, Banna Gupta said that once again step-motherly treatment has been done with Jharkhand. He claimed that he had raised his hand many times to speak in the interest of Jharkhand, but he was not allowed to speak. The Health Minister said that this meeting was purely a political meeting in which an attempt was made to explain the rising inflation and the prices of petrol and diesel.
Gupta said that the seriousness for which this meeting was called there was very little discussion on it as in the meeting, only 40 percent of the health talks took place. At the same time, 60 percent of the talk happened on petrol-diesel, he claimed. The minister said that in the meeting, the Prime Minister said that Omicron has come in many countries in the world and India has won the third phase of the pandemic but in the fourth phase, people needed to remain alert.
In such a situation it can be said that the meeting turned out to be a purely political meeting. He said that it is known to all that the problem of Omicron has come to the fore at the global level and its effect has also been seen in many states but there was very little discussion on these issues in the meeting.
He further said that he had tried several times to present the situation of the state to the Prime Minister.” I raised my hand several times and asked for time to speak, but I was not even given a chance to speak. If I had got a chance to speak, I would have definitely said that the people of Jharkhand should be given a booster dose for free. Also, the decision that has been taken to give the vaccine to children of 6 to 12 years, should be initiated as soon as possible,” he said.