Tag: Deputy Chief Minister

  • I’m happy people that country is with farmers, we are with them too: Arvind Kejriwal

     Kejriwal is holding a one-day fast in support of the farmers’ protest today. While addressing the people at the hunger strike Kejriwal said that Our farmers are in peril these days. Those who should be tilling their fields are sitting in the biting cold. But I’m happy people in the country including the army, lawyers, actors, doctors, are with them. We are with farmers too.

    Senior Delhi government ministers and AAP MLAs, including Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, are sitting on a ‘hunger strike’ in support of farmers who are protesting against the Centre’s farm laws. Ministers Satyendar Jain, Gopal Rai, and party leader Aatishi Marlena are also present at the strike organised at the party headquarters.

    This comes after Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had announced a one-day fast in support of the farmers’ protest on Sunday.

    Supporting the call given by the agitating farmers, he had urged AAP volunteers to join the farmers’ agitation. “Centre should immediately accept all demands of farmers protesting the laws and bring a bill to guarantee MSP (minimum support price),” Kejriwal had said.

  • PM Modi to visit 3 Covid-19 vaccine facilities today to review preparedness

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on Saturday embark on a three-city tour across the country to review the progress of the coronavirus vaccines that are being developed at three noted pharmaceutical facilities in India.

    Making the announcement on Twitter, the Prime Minister’s Office said that Modi will visit Ahmedabad, Hyderabad and Pune to check out the vaccine development work at the facilities there.

    “Tomorrow, PM Narendra Modi will embark on a 3 city visit to personally review the vaccine development & manufacturing process. He will visit the Zydus Biotech Park in Ahmedabad, Bharat Biotech in Hyderabad & Serum Institute of India in Pune. As India enters a decisive phase of the fight against COVID-19, PM @narendramodis visit to these facilities & discussions with the scientists will help him get a first-hand perspective of the preparations, challenges & roadmap in Indias endeavour to vaccinate its citizens,” the PMO tweeted.

    This will be the Prime Minister’s first visit to pharma major Zydus Cadila’s plant near Ahmedabad, Gujarat Deputy Chief Minister Nitin Patel said earlier in the day. 

    The PM will arrive at the plant in the Changodar industrial area, over 20 kms from Ahmedabad, around 9:30 am.  

    Zydus had earlier announced that the Phase-I clinical trial of their vaccine candidate ‘ZyCoV-D’ was complete and the Phase-II trials had commenced in August. 

    From there, he will fly to Hyderabad to visit the Bharat Biotech facility around 1:30 pm. The PM will land at Hakimpet Air Force station and proceed to the facility in Genome Valley, roughly 50 kms from Hyderabad. Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin is currently undergoing Phase-3 trials.