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Kolkata: 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".
"West Bengal... being an election-going state... we are required to reach out to every government and parastatal employee on an urgent basis to make the election safe.
"We feel it is equally important to reach out to them with a rapid vaccination programme immediately (in the) interest of health and well-being of all concerned," she added.
This was after the BJP was made an identical promise in October last year - free Covid vaccines for the people of Bihar ahead of Assembly elections there.
Earlier today Union Minister Prakash Javadekar said the second phase of vaccinations - in which around 27 crore people over 60 and those over 45 but with illnesses - would begin March 1.