New Delhi:
Preserving a key ballot promise, Delhi Leader Minister Rekha Gupta introduced after the primary Cupboard assembly on Thursday that her executive would put in force the Ayushman Bharat medical health insurance scheme within the nationwide capital. In a transfer that can ignite a political slugfest, the executive minister additionally mentioned that 14 Comptroller and Auditor Basic (CAG) stories, whose tabling had allegedly been not on time by way of the former AAP executive, will now be introduced within the Meeting.
Chatting with newshounds after the assembly, Ms Gupta mentioned in Hindi, “All through the cupboard assembly, we now have taken two giant choices. The Ayushman Bharat Yojana, whose implementation were held again by way of the former executive, will likely be carried out in Delhi with a top-up of Rs five lakh from the state executive. PM Narendra Modi had introduced the scheme for the entire country, however Delhi may just now not get its advantages as a result of the AAP. This will likely be finished on the earliest after the formalities are finished.”
“There are 14 CAG stories pending, that have been now not tabled by way of the former executive. They’ll be tabled all the way through the primary consultation of the Meeting. Those choices had been taken lately. We can take in our different commitments, give form to each and every certainly one of them and provide them ahead of you quickly,” she added.
The implementation of the Ayushman Bharat Yojana had grow to be a significant flashpoint between the AAP and the BJP. MPs from the BJP had additionally filed a petition within the Delhi Prime Court docket, in quest of that the scheme be made to be had to folks within the nationwide capital.
The AAP had, then again, argued that the capital’s citizens revel in “awesome” advantages underneath the Delhi executive’s schemes and enforcing Ayushman Bharat would successfully be a downgrade. The Delhi executive mentioned that the Centre had used 2011 Census information for the Ayushman Bharat scheme, rendering it “previous and archaic”, and didn’t take the evolving instances of society into account.
BJP MP Bansuri Swaraj had mentioned there was once no willingness at the a part of the Delhi executive to put in force the central scheme. Each events had made the problem an electoral one and the BJP had promised it might put in force Ayushman Bharat when it got here to energy.
The tabling of the 14 CAG stories, together with one at the scrapped liquor coverage – which had resulted in AAP leader after which leader minister Arvind Kejriwal, then deputy leader minister Manish Sisodia and different AAP leaders going to prison – had additionally grow to be a large political factor.
This topic was once additionally being litigated within the Delhi Prime Court docket, which had, final month, refused to reserve a unique consultation of the Meeting to talk about the stories. The bench had, then again, famous the lengthen of their tabling.
Atishi’s Dare
Forward of the primary cupboard assembly, former leader minister Atishi had prompt to BJP to put in force its different ballot promise of giving Rs 2,500 a month to eligible girls. When Leader Minister Gupta was once requested about this, then again, she mentioned, “It’s our executive, the time table will likely be ours. Ask her (Atishi) why she didn’t put in force it when the AAP was once in energy.”
Atishi replied, pronouncing that the ladies of Delhi had been hoping the BJP would fulfil its promise, however the celebration had failed to take action. “The BJP has began breaking its guarantees at the first day itself,” she alleged.
The BJP secured 48 seats within the Delhi Meeting elections, returning to energy within the nationwide capital after 26 years and decreasing the once-formidable AAP to simply 22.
