Suspend Central Vista, fight pandemic: Oppn to PM Modi

TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ Leaders of 12 opposition parties on Wednesday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, seeking a free mass vaccination campaign against coronavirus, and a suspension of the central vista revamp project to aid the fight against the pandemic. In a joint letter to the prime minister, the opposition leaders, including some chief ministers, also demanded providing foodgrains to the needy, and giving Rs 6,000 per month to the unemployed.

The leaders have also demanded a repeal of the three Central farm laws which, they claimed, will help protect lakhs of ‘annadatas’ (food-growers) from becoming the victims of pandemic. A large number of farmers are sitting in protest at three borders of Delhi, seeking the farm laws passed by Parliament in September last year be scrapped.

The signatories to the joint letter include Congress president Sonia Gandhi, former prime minister and Janata Dal-Secular leader H D Deve Gowda and Nationalist Congress Party supremo Sharad Pawar. Other signatories include chief ministers Uddhav Thackeray (Shiv Sena), Mamata Banerjee (Trinamool Congress), MK Stalin (Dravida Munnetra Kazagham), and Hemant Soren (Jharkhand Mukti Morcha).