Priyanka Gandhi counters Yogi Adityanath govt over health in Uttar Pradesh | India News – Times of India

New Delhi: Yogi Adityanath The BJP government in the post-poll Uttar Pradesh (UP) may have announced the Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party (SP) is its main rival, but the Congress is doing everything possible to be seen as the main rival of the ruling party in the 2022 assembly elections.
Congress general secretary in-charge of UP, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, has been consistently seen as an attempt to challenge the Yogi Adityanath government and eat up the BJP’s votes. Be it farmers, Dalits, women, Hindus and others, Priyanka seems to be wooing them all.
Priyanka flagged off the 10-day ‘Pratigya Yatra’ of Congress from Barabanki on 23 October. He announced six promises of the Congress, which the party will fulfill if it comes to power.
The six promises Priyanka announced are: 1) giving 40 per cent of party tickets to women; Smartphones and scooties to girl students; 2) waiver of farmers’ loans; 3) Minimum Support Price (MSP) of Rs 2500 for paddy and wheat and Rs 400 for sugarcane; 4) halving the electricity bills and waiving the bills during the corona pandemic; 5) Each poor family will get Rs 25,000 to tide over the economic crisis due to Covid-19; and 6) Government employment to 20 lakh people.

On Monday, the Congress leader added a seventh promise to the list.
In a tweet, she said: “Everyone saw the dilapidated state of UP’s health system during Covid-19 and the current fever spread due to the apathy of the government. For cheap and effective treatment, the UP Congress has decided to provide free government treatment up to Rs 10 lakh for any disease if the party comes to power with the consent of the manifesto committee. Congress resolve – we will fulfill our promise.

Priyanka’s latest promise seeks to counter the Modi government’s flagship healthcare mission. Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PM-JAY) is the world’s largest health insurance scheme aimed at providing health cover of Rs 5 lakh per family per year for secondary and tertiary care hospitalization to over 10.74 crore poor and vulnerable families. To do. (about 50 crore beneficiaries) which is the lowest 40 percent of the Indian population.
Coincidentally or as a planned strategy, Priyanka’s promise on the healthcare sector came on a day when the Prime Minister Narendra Modi The state had two separate programs to inaugurate and launch ambitious projects in the same area.
in the first event Siddharth NagarPrime Minister Modi inaugurated nine medical colleges in the state. These nine medical colleges are in Siddharth Nagar, Etah, Hardoi, Pratapgarh, Fatehpur, Deoria, Ghazipur, Mirzapur and Jaunpur districts. Governor Anandiben Patel, Chief Minister Adityanath, Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare Mansukh Mandaviya Others were present on this occasion.

In the second event in his Lok Sabha constituency of Varanasi, the Prime Minister launched the PM Ayushman Bharat Health Infrastructure Mission. He also inaugurated various development projects for Varanasi worth about Rs 5200 crore.
PM Modi Tweeted: “A historic day for India’s healthcare sector. View from Kashi”

In his speech, PM Modi regretted that post independent India, the health infrastructure was not given the necessary attention for a very long time and citizens had to wander door to door for proper treatment, worsening the situation and financial stress. .
He said: “This has led to a persistent concern for medical treatment in the hearts of the middle class and poor. Those whose governments remained in the country for a long time, instead of all-round development of the country’s health system, deprived it of facilities.
Modi said that the objective of PM Ayushman Bharat Health Infrastructure Mission is to tackle this shortcoming. He said that it aims to strengthen the vital health network from village to block, from district to regional and national level in the next four to five years.
The PM said that the speed with which new medical colleges are opening in UP will have an impact on the number of medical seats and doctors in the state. He said that by getting more seats, now the children of poor parents will also be able to dream of becoming a doctor and fulfill it.
Speaking about the past plight of the holy city of Kashi, the PM said that people had almost resigned from the pathetic state of the city’s infrastructure. Things have changed and today the heart of Kashi is the same, the mind is the same, but sincere efforts are being made to improve the body. The work that has been done in Varanasi in the last seven years has not been done in the last several decades, he said.