Delhi Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president  Adesh Gupta slammed the Kejriwal Government for not implementing Ayushman Bharat Yojana in Delhi.

Why such yojana which provides health insurance of Rs 5 lakh to the poor was stopped from being implemented by the Delhi Government, he asked? “Who is responsible for poor people who died without treatment due to lack of money? Who is responsible for those who could not get treatment,” he said.

Gupta said Kejriwal should know that in the States where this scheme has been implemented, more than 1 crore people have taken advantage of it so far. “More than 12.54 crore people have been issued e-cards of Ayushman Bharat Yojana and more than 20 thousand hospitals have been listed,” he said.

The BJP president said that the Kejriwal government from being implemented in Delhi stopped even such an important scheme. He said that if this scheme were implemented in Delhi, 50 lakh people of 10 lakh families would have benefited directly. “They could have got health insurance of up to Rs 5 lakh under the Ayushman Bharat Yojana in Delhi. Beneficiaries could have got free treatment up to Rs 5 lakh in the Corona period,” he said.

Gupta said this is not the first time that the Kejriwal Government has deprived people of their rights. “The Kejriwal government did the same with the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana. This scheme was also not allowed to be implemented in Delhi, whose consequences are being faced by 48 thousand slum-dwellers of Delhi today. It is because of the Kejriwal government that today 48000 slum dwellers are about to lose their home,” he said.