Speaking to reporters in Satara, the former Lok Sabha MP said if vaccines were given equally to all states, it may go unused in smaller states.

"There is no use giving equal supply of vaccine doses to Maharashtra, and states like Manipur and Meghalaya (which are much smaller in size and population) as the doses might go unused," he said.

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Bhosale added that if people had followed family planning in the years gone by, then this "current situation", of the need to vaccinate several hundred crore people, would not have prevailed.

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