‘Action Will Be Taken’: Atishi Talks Tough After Newspaper Ads Against AAP Schemes Spark Row – News18
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Delhi Chief Minister Atishi accused the BJP of pressuring officials to issue misleading public notices discrediting AAP’s welfare schemes for women and the elderly.
Delhi Chief Minister Atishi addresses press conference (Video screengrab/ANI)
Delhi Chief Minister Atishi on Wednesday said administrative and police action will be initiated against the officers who got the public notices published in the newspapers today, concerning the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)’s schemes on women and elderly welfare.
Addressing a press conference, Atishi said, “The notices issued in newspapers today are wrong. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), by putting pressure on a few officers, got this notice published today.”
“Administrative and police action will be taken against these officers. The information that the ‘Mahila Samman Yojana’ has been notified by the Delhi Cabinet is in the public domain,” she added.
#WATCH | After Delhi WCD issues a public notice stating Mahila Samman Yojana and scheme for free health treatment for senior citizens not notified, Delhi CM Atishi says, “The notices issued in newspapers today are wrong. BJP by putting pressure on a few officers got this notice… pic.twitter.com/2ASLDzte3q— ANI (@ANI) December 25, 2024
“Arvind (Kejriwal) Ji has said we have credible information that to stop free bus service for women in Delhi, an attempt is being made (by the BJP) to impose a fake case on me,” Atishi asserted during the press conference.
“Even if they arrest me, I have faith in the legal system and the Constitution that despite their false cases on me, I will get bail,” she added.
#WATCH | Delhi CM Atishi says, “Arvind ji has said we have credible information that to stop free bus service for women in Delhi, an attempt is being made (by BJP) to impose a fake case on me….Even if they arrest me, I have faith in the legal system and the Constitution that… pic.twitter.com/Oe9s6f0KbX— ANI (@ANI) December 25, 2024
This comes hours after the Delhi government’s Women and Child Development and Health departments issued public notices on Wednesday distancing themselves from the ruling AAP’s promised schemes of providing Rs 2,100 to women and free treatment for the elderly, triggering a fresh row ahead of assembly polls.
The two departments also cautioned the people against providing personal details to anyone on the pretext of registration for “non-existent” schemes, saying any private individual or political party collecting such physical forms or information is “fraudulent and without any authority”.
The development, which came days after AAP leaders launched the exercise of registering people for the ‘Mukhya Mantri Mahila Samman Yojana’ and ‘Sanjeevani Yojana’ with much fanfare, left the AAP convener Arvind Kejriwal furious.
BJP MP Bansuri Swaraj had on Tuesday claimed that she spoke to the health secretary of the Delhi government and was informed that there was no ‘Sanjeevani Yojna’ in existence.
Both the schemes were announced by Kejriwal ahead of Assembly polls in February next year and AAP had started registrations for the schemes in campaign mode.
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