‘New govt will implement AB-PMJAY in first Cabinet meeting’: BJP MPs withdraw plea from HC
Earlier, then AAP government had categorically told the HC that it “does not want to implement the AB-PMJAY scheme as it will amount to downgrading the schemes already in place in Delhi”.
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In January, then AAP-led government had opposed the PIL, saying that it has its own Delhi Arogya Kosh (DAK) scheme, which is a “much more robust scheme in comparison to AB-PMJAY”. (File Photo)Seven Delhi BJP MPs, who had moved a public interest litigation (PIL) in the Delhi High Court challenging the “arbitrary decision” of the then AAP government to not implement Ayushman Bharat PM-JAY (Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana) in the Capital, withdrew the petition on Tuesday. They informed the HC that the new BJP government will issue instructions on implementing the scheme in its first Cabinet meeting.
The PIL was moved last November by BJP MPs Bansuri Swaraj, Praveen Khandelwal, Ramvir Bidhuri, Kamaljeet Sehrawat, Harsh Malhotra, Manoj Kumar Tiwari and Yogender Chandolia, challenging the “arbitrary decision” of the government to not implement PMJAY in Delhi. In January, then AAP-led government had opposed the PIL, saying that it has its own Delhi Arogya Kosh (DAK) scheme, which is a “much more robust scheme in comparison to AB-PMJAY”.
Advocate Tejasvi Gupta, representing the petitioners, informed the division bench of Justices Prathiba Singh and Manmeet Pritam Singh Arora that the “the present dispensation has assured that the scheme will be implemented in the first Cabinet meeting”. The bench permitted the request.
Earlier, then AAP government had categorically told the HC that it “does not want to implement the AB-PMJAY scheme as it will amount to downgrading the schemes already in place in Delhi”. The BJP MPs, on the other hand, had highlighted that under the health insurance scheme, those aged 70 or more, irrespective of their income, will be entitled to a cover of Rs 5 lakh annually to be shared within the family.
The AAP government had pointed out that AB-PMJAY scheme will only benefit 12-15% of the city’s population, impressing that “the healthcare model of the state provides for high quality specialised care for all, whether local or not”.
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