"Vaccines Free Of Cost To All": Mamata Banerjee To PM Ahead Of Polls | Read

With polls now just weeks away, the Bengal government wants to provide coronavirus vaccines "free of cost to all people... to make the election safe" and has requested the centre's support in purchasing the required number of doses "on top priority basis". On Wednesday afternoon Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to point out that while government and parastatal employees who will be involved in the conduct of the election were being vaccinated, lakhs of voters were not.