BJP must answer how much money they have taken for selling away hospitals meant for the poor and oppressed: Dilip Pandey
Karol Bagh’s Jhandewalan Chest Clinic and Narela’s Qutab Garh Dispensary Complex is being illegally given to a private organisation: Dilip Pandey
The BJP will now make the poor pay for treatment at hospitals which were earlier completely free: Dilip Pandey
BJP ruled MCD gave away both the hospitals for 20 years without charging any fees: Vishesh Ravi
BJP ruled MCD is handing over these hospitals to private organisations owned by its own people: Vikas Goel
Be it Dispensaries, Medical Centres, Maternity Centres, Hospital Lands, BJP ruled North MCD is giving away all of its health infrastructure to their own people for free: Vikas Goel
NEW DELHI:
Bhartiya Janata Party are setting daily records of incompetence, failure, ineptitude, and all kinds of mismanagement. They’ve sold school land, and now the BJP is planning to sell the public health infrastructure as well. AAP’s Chief Whip and MLA Shri Dilip Pandey informed that the BJP ruled North MCD is handing over hospital land to private players for free. He said that in a complete disregard of the law of the land, BJP bypassed the DMC Act 1957 to benefit the private mafia. He dared the BJP to answer how much it has earned from this deal, saying, they must come clear why they are selling away hospitals meant for the poor and downtrodden. Karol Bagh’s Jhandewalan Chest Clinic and Narela’s Qutab Garh Dispensary Complex are being illegally given to a private organisation. The BJP will now make the poor pay for treatment at hospitals which were earlier completely free, he added. At the same time Senior Leader and MLA Shri Vishesh Ravi said that BJP’s corrupt leaders have forced the MCD to give away both the hospitals for 20 years without charging any fees. While, AAP’s North MCD LoP Shri Vikas Goel stated that the private players who have been handed over these hospitals belong to the BJP itself. Be it Dispensaries, Medical Centres, Maternity Centres, Hospital Lands, BJP is forcing the North MCD to give away all of its health infrastructure for free, he said.
Exposing yet another one of BJP’s corruption antics, AAP Senior Leader and MLA Shri Dilip Pandey said, “There’s a saying about cowards fleeing a sinking ship; and in the case of the BJP and its corruption, it is not only fleeing the MCD, but also looting its vaults by selling its assets. Two major properties in Delhi were taken over by the MCD – one, 510 square metres of land at the Jhandewalan Chest Clinic area in Karol Bagh, and two, around 4,000 square metres of land at the Qutabgarh Dispensary Complex in Narela Zone – with the objective of establishing hospitals for treating common people, to give them better healthcare facilities. However, despite objections from the Aam Aadmi Party, the BJP decided to auction these tracts of land off to private agencies. First, this matter was brought up in the Standing Committee where it was opposed. And now, without bringing the proposal in the House, tenders for the auctioning of these two properties have been issued by the BJP-ruled MCD. This tender document is public.”
He added, “The BJP is in such a haste to empty MCD’s vaults that its corrupt leaders have completely bypassed the process laid down by the DMC Act of 1957 under which such proposals have to be presented in the House, the temple of democracy, after passing in the Standing Committee. And they directly floated the tender for the private players to take over these major properties for free. What’s worse is that now the clinic or dispensary which will run on these lands will charge the common people for treatment, dismantling the earlier objective of free healthcare. It’s a direct matter of quid pro quo. There is no doubt that the BJP has taken bribes for the same. It is impossible that there has been no scam or corruption in the process. I ask the BJP Mayor and BJP Delhi President and the leading politicians of the BJP in Delhi that how much money have you gobbled up to bypass the DMC Act and auctioned off the land to private players which was allocated for public interest. The entire public of Delhi as well as the Aam Aadmi Party demands an answer.”
MLA Shri Vishesh Ravi said, “There is no conceivable limit that the BJP hasn’t crossed today. Every day they attempt to sell anything, it is apparent that the leaders of the MCD and the Bhartiya Janata Party are setting daily records of incompetence, failure, ineptitude, and all kinds of mismanagement. We’ve seen how they’ve sold school land, and now the BJP is planning to sell the public health infrastructure as well. These were the places where people used to go for tests, treatment, and medication. The Bharatiya Janata Party is selling the land of these sites to private individuals through the MCD.”
He added, “At Jhandewalan Extension in Karol Bagh, there is a North MCD chest clinic that has been operating for years and is being razed today. The BJP has given the land of this Chest Clinic to a private individual to set up their facility there for 15 years. After 5 years are up, this can be extended. So for the next 20 years, the BJP has given this land to a private individual. Thousands of people have benefited from this land for free health-related benefits for years, but now a private individual will profit from it. This situation has become really serious, and the leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party are looking to sell the people’s land every day. We had begged the President to intervene in this matter at the last conference, and we do the same today, because the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Municipal Corporation have decided to sell every inch of land that belongs to the people of Delhi. The property that BJP is selling today does not belong to the BJP or the MCD; it is land owned by the people of Delhi, and it should be used for the benefit of the people of Delhi. I respectfully urge the President to save Delhiites’ from the BJP.”
AAP’s Leader of Opposition in the North MCD, Shri Vikas Goel said, “Despite the continuous opposition from Aam Aadmi Party councillors, the Bharatiya Janata Party submitted an extremely dangerous proposal to the Standing Committee, which was forcefully passed. According to that proposal, the BJP can give away a number of land owned by the North MCD, including that of health care centres, dispensaries, maternity homes, or even hospital empty land, to private individuals for free. Perhaps this will be the first licence of its kind in the world with no fees. The BJP would offer free land to NGOs, who will then be able to charge the general public. When the Delhi government requested the MCD for land to build a Mohalla clinic, the BJP in the MCD refused to give even an inch of space to the Delhi government for the Mohalla clinic even when a resolution was passed in the house. The same BJP is giving away free land to private NGOs. These NGOs aren’t just any NGOs; they’re all run by members of the Bharatiya Janata Party or their kin.”
He added, “The BJP plans to develop private hospitals by grabbing land from public health facilities where people are now treated for free and distributing it among its supporters. Like the past when Apollo Hospital was given land on a one-rupee lease so that patients might be treated, but we can see how things are now. Today, the BJP is perpetrating a massive fraud. Today, I would like to issue a warning to all of the leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party, NGOs, and builders who are buying the land of the schools and health centres, that when the government is formed in MCD under the leadership of Arvind Kejriwal ji, everything will be investigated, and no politician, officer, or builder will be spared. The BJP’s pot of sins is about to break and it will be severely punished.”