‘Why Group D health workers?’ UTK says ministers, senior officials should step forward for vaccine shots

Team Udayavani, Jan 16, 2021, 2:45 PM IST

Mangaluru: Congress MLA UT Khader on Saturday said that rather than innoculating Group D health workers in the first phase of the Covid-19 vaccination drive launched today, the ministers who launched the drive should have taken the vaccine shots.

Taking to Twitter, Khader expressed pleasure over availability of a vaccine for novel coronavirus. “Instead of experimenting the vaccine on poor group D employees, the ministers who so grandiosely inaugurated the vaccination drive should have taken the vaccine themselves to instill confidence among the people,” he tweeted.

ಲಸಿಕೆ ಬಂದಿರುವುದು ಸಂತೋಷ.ಬಡಪಾಯಿ ಡಿ ಗ್ರೂಪ್ ನೌಕರರ ಮೇಲೆ ಲಸಿಕೆಗೆ ಪ್ರಯೋಗ ಮಾಡುವ ಮೊದಲು ಆಡಂಬರದಿಂದ ಉದ್ಘಾಟನೆ ಮಾಡುವ ಮಂತ್ರಿಗಳು ಶಾಸಕರು ಹಾಗೂ ಹಿರಿಯ ಅಧಿಕಾರಿಗಳು ಮೊದಲ ಲಸಿಕೆ ಪಡೆದು ಮಾದರಿ ಆಗಲಿ ಎಂಬುದು ಜನರ ಪರವಾಗಿ ನನ್ನ ವಿನಂತಿ. @BSYBJP @KotasBJP @AngaraSBJP #People‘s #safety #is #govt #responsibility.

— UT Khadér (@utkhader) January 16, 2021

His remarks come in the backdrop of doubts raised over the efficacy of the vaccines by the Congress, asking as to why not a single government functionary stepped forward to get themselves inoculated.