Lieutenant governor VK Saxena on Wednesday accused AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal of not implementing the central authorities’s Ayushman Bharat scheme due to “concern” of getting “uncovered”.
His assault comes on a day when Delhi BJP MPs filed a joint writ petition within the excessive court docket looking for implementation of the medical insurance coverage scheme.
In a protracted publish on X in Hindi, Saxena accused Kejriwal of depriving lakhs of individuals in Delhi of the advantages of the scheme.
He claimed the previous Delhi chief minister was afraid that the scheme’s implementation may expose the reality behind the false well being mannequin promoted by the AAP authorities within the nationwide capital.
“I don’t take cognisance of your baseless statements, however this publish is a few very people-oriented scheme of the Authorities of India – Ayushman Bharat, which advantages crores of Indians,” Saxena mentioned in his publish.
On Tuesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi slammed the AAP authorities for blocking the medical insurance scheme in Delhi to guard its political pursuits.
Arvind Kejriwal right this moment mentioned that Delhi does not want Ayushman Bharat as a result of the AAP authorities gives free therapy and medicines to the folks of the nationwide capital.
Saxena mentioned in 2018, the Delhi authorities had really useful implementing the Ayushman Bharat scheme within the nationwide capital, however Kejriwal opposed the transfer as a result of he needed his title to be related to it.
“Your authorities talked about naming the Ayushman Bharat scheme as ‘Chief Minister Aam Aadmi Well being Insurance coverage Scheme Ayushman Bharat’,” Saxena claimed in his publish.
Saxena additionally termed the “so-called well being mannequin” of the AAP authorities a “net of phantasm” created by Kejriwal’s “highly effective propaganda equipment”.
Earlier on Wednesday, BJP’s seven Lok Sabha MPs within the nationwide capital filed a writ petition within the Delhi excessive court docket in opposition to the AAP authorities’s determination to not implement the Ayushman Bharat scheme.
With inputs from PTI
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