VACCINES SAFE, NO NEED TO WORRY: MINISTER, OFFICIALS
Vaccines approved by the Centre to combat Covid-19 are safe and there was no need for any fear, top health department officials said here on Friday.
Health minister Etala Rajendar, said, “It was only after extensive trials that the DCGI approved their use.”
In the Rajamahendravaram case in which idols were desecrated and a propaganda was carried out that some impure material was pasted on the Ganesh idol, Bommuru police arrested four persons, two each belonging to TD and BJP. The Forensic Lab Report revealed that the material pasted on the idol was not impure as propagated. The arrested included Vellapalli Prasad Babu and Chitikena Sandeep (both TD) and Adapa Varaprasad and Kasturi Srinivasa Rao from BJP.
TD activist Challa Madhusudhan Reddy was involved in damaging the idol of Goddess Saraswathi in Guntur district, while TD’s Bojjana Subba Reddy was involved in garlanding slippers to Anjaneya statue in Kondalaveedu of Kadapa district. Golla Peddaiah, Gadde Ramanjaneyulu, Barme Jayaramudu and Syed Fakruddin, all belonging to TD, were involved in desecration and demolishing of Maddamma temple in Kurnool district for treasure hunting.
TD's Viswantha Reddy, who is temple committee chairman, was involved in the desecration of Aanjayaneya Swamy idol legs and stealing of hundi in Marlamanda village in Kurnool district. Six persons belonging to TD were involved in the alleged damage to the idol of gods in Lakshminarasimha Swamy temple at Singarayakonda in Prakasam district.
Two TD activists spread false news about chopping of hands of a Vinayaka idol, a long time ago at Yetigyrampeta in Visakhapatnam.
One Konchada Ravikumar, who is Dompet BJP mandal secretary, was involved in spreading false news about the damage of Hanuman statue, which was earlier damaged when a tree fell on it. BJP activist Dharmavarapu Acharya was involved is spreading false propaganda about veena of Saraswathi Devi being broken by people from another religion. It was actually broken a long time back due to wear and tear in Srikakulam district’s Etcherla.