New Delhi: The AAP cried foul over CBI raiding health minister Satyendar Jain’s residence on Wednesday. The party said that the BJP was using every trick possible from “rejections” to “raids” to harass and crush AAP.
Chief minister Arvind Kejriwal tweeted: “What does PM Modi want?” Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia, while quoting a report, said that Niti Aayog favoured these creative teams. “The Aam Aadmi Party is not going to stop with these practice (sic),” he said.
Mr Sisodia said that the party is now used to all the political tricks of the saffron fold and is prepared to deal with them. The matter was handed over to the CBI by former L-G Najeeb Jung before leaving the office, he said. “CBI raids when Satyendra Jain’s action against the private hospital’s is talking point all over. The Aam Aadmi Party is not going to fear lobbies,” Mr Sisodia said in a tweet.
“Nothing will be found in the CBI raid but just to divert the minds of people from the good that AAP is doing in health sector the BJP has come up with the latest drama of raid and distract the public. Two days back the case on Satyendra Jain’s daughter was shut down as no evidence was found against her... Her only fault was that she volunteered in the mohalla clinic campaign.
“Today the enquiry was about why and how did the health minister Satendra Jain seek help from the creative team to design the beautiful infrastructure of the schools in Delhi and that too without seeking permission from the BJP-ruled L-G,” Mr Sisodia said in a statement. On the other hand, the Niti Aayog team of Central government is praising the efforts of the creativity team but just because this work is done by AAP, the CBI was sent to the ministers house to raid,” the deputy CM said in a statement.
On Tuesday, the Delhi government formed guidelines to regulate the functioning of private hospitals and curb the practice of arbitrarily charging patients.
The draft advisory from the Delhi government for private hospitals include capping of profit made on drugs and consumables by private hospitals in the national capital, and provisions wherein they “cannot hold hostage” bodies of patients, who have died during the treatment there, even if families are unable to pay the due bills before the last rites.
The draft also proposes the doctors at private hospitals and nursing homes preferably prescribe drugs from the National List of Essential Medicines (NLEM) and patients be consulted before administering drugs in the non-NLEM category.
