Team News Riveting
Kolkata, June 26
Leader of Opposition in West Bengal Suvendu Adhikari had demanded a probe by the central agency in the alleged vaccine scam in West Bengal.
Adhikari wrote a letter to the Union Health Minister, Dr Harsh Vardhan and brought the matter to the notice of Centre.
“One Debanjan Deb impersonating as an IAS officer working as Joint Commissioner of Kolkata Municipal Corporation has been holding illegal vaccination camps in Ward No 107 of Kasba right in the heart of Kolkata under the banner of KMC,” he said in the letter.
The BJP MLA expressed lack of confidence in the investigation by Kolkata police and demanded a central agency probe to bring out the facts related to the vaccination scam, where allegedly fake jabs were being administered.
The Kolkata police busted the fake vaccination centre on Wednesday after Trinamool Congress MP Mimi Chakraborty raised an alarm when she did not receive any SMS or any vaccination certificate after she took the jab at the centre. She then alerted the police, who arrested Dev with forged documents, fake identity cards, seal, and signature of the authorities of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation.
The Leader of Opposition claimed that such an exercise of fraud cannot happen without the knowledge of the highest offices. He also alleged that several incriminating photographs of the accused with influential leaders of the ruling TMC- Kolkata Mayor Firhad Hakim, Minister Subrata Mukherjee, TMC MP Santanu Sen, TMC MLAs Debasish Kumar, and Lovely Maitra, KMC councilor Baiswanor Chatterjee and others were seen endorsing the activities of Debanjan Deb
Demanding a central agency probe Adhikari said, “An impartial investigation by the central agencies, undaunted by any pressure from the state ruling party or government is the need of the hour to restore (the) credibility to the entire process of COVID vaccination in West Bengal.”
