BARGARH: After promising minimum income guarantee for the unemployed youths not too long ago, Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Friday pledged a minimum healthcare guarantee for all, if voted to energy on the Centre.
Addressing a gathering of round 25,000 people at Nua Sarsara village in Odisha’s Bargarh district, Rahul said the Congress plans to enact the Right to Healthcare Act in the country. “Congress will make sure reasonably priced healthcare for right through the Act and likewise make sure higher training for the folk in the country,” he said.
Odisha Congress president Niranjan Patnaik too promised to open a most cancers clinic in Bargarh at the occasion.
“We will appoint more doctors and spend more on improving the healthcare gadget and training after forming the federal government on the Centre,” Rahul said. During his seek advice from to Koraput district on March 8, he had promised free technical training for women in Odisha.
Rahul’s healthcare guarantee comes in the wake of the state and Centre sparring over their very own healthcare schemes introduced a couple of months in the past. Chief minister Naveen Panaik introduced Biju Swasthya Kalyan Yojana (BSKY) on August 15, 2018 out of the state’s own budget while the Centre’s formidable Ayushman Bharat was introduced through Prime Minister Narendra Modi on September 23, 2018.
Apart from wooing farmers through promising them mortgage waiver, higher value on paddy, monetary assistance, meals processing units and better marketplace linkage, Rahul introduced scathing attacks on Naveen and Modi for allegedly developing an agrarian disaster in Odisha and other states. “Bargarh is known as the rice bowl of the state. But farmers continue to dedicate suicide right here and in other parts of the state and the rustic. While farmers are denied monetary and banking benefits, a number of top industrialists have been allowed to flee in a foreign country after looting lakhs of crores of rupees from banks. Support Congress and provides us votes in order that we will convey development in Odisha and country,” Rahul said.
Taking a dig at Naveen for the alleged involvement of many of his leaders in multi-hundred crore chit fund and mining scams in Odisha, Rahul said, “I promise you that the Congress will take stringent action towards the culprits after forming the federal government in Odisha.” Chhattisgarh leader minister Bhupesh Baghel, who accompanied Rahul to Bargarh, urged the folk to root out the BJD govt in the state and the BJP on the Centre.
This was Gandhi’s first seek advice from to Odisha after the announcement of the election agenda. He had previous visited Bhubaneswar on January 25, Bhawanipatna and Rourkela on February 6 and Koraput on March 8 to reinforce the poll prospects of the Congress, which has been out of energy in the state since 2000.
Both the BJD and BJP hit again at Congress. “People, together with farmers in the state, will keep blessing the Naveen Patnaik-led govt because of his pro-farmer and other welfare measures. Congress can best make false guarantees,” BJD chief and labour minister Susanta Singh said. BJP chief Samir Mohanty slammed Congress and BJD and expressed confidence of BJP’s return to energy in Odisha.
Addressing a gathering of round 25,000 people at Nua Sarsara village in Odisha’s Bargarh district, Rahul said the Congress plans to enact the Right to Healthcare Act in the country. “Congress will make sure reasonably priced healthcare for right through the Act and likewise make sure higher training for the folk in the country,” he said.
Odisha Congress president Niranjan Patnaik too promised to open a most cancers clinic in Bargarh at the occasion.
“We will appoint more doctors and spend more on improving the healthcare gadget and training after forming the federal government on the Centre,” Rahul said. During his seek advice from to Koraput district on March 8, he had promised free technical training for women in Odisha.
Rahul’s healthcare guarantee comes in the wake of the state and Centre sparring over their very own healthcare schemes introduced a couple of months in the past. Chief minister Naveen Panaik introduced Biju Swasthya Kalyan Yojana (BSKY) on August 15, 2018 out of the state’s own budget while the Centre’s formidable Ayushman Bharat was introduced through Prime Minister Narendra Modi on September 23, 2018.
Apart from wooing farmers through promising them mortgage waiver, higher value on paddy, monetary assistance, meals processing units and better marketplace linkage, Rahul introduced scathing attacks on Naveen and Modi for allegedly developing an agrarian disaster in Odisha and other states. “Bargarh is known as the rice bowl of the state. But farmers continue to dedicate suicide right here and in other parts of the state and the rustic. While farmers are denied monetary and banking benefits, a number of top industrialists have been allowed to flee in a foreign country after looting lakhs of crores of rupees from banks. Support Congress and provides us votes in order that we will convey development in Odisha and country,” Rahul said.
Taking a dig at Naveen for the alleged involvement of many of his leaders in multi-hundred crore chit fund and mining scams in Odisha, Rahul said, “I promise you that the Congress will take stringent action towards the culprits after forming the federal government in Odisha.” Chhattisgarh leader minister Bhupesh Baghel, who accompanied Rahul to Bargarh, urged the folk to root out the BJD govt in the state and the BJP on the Centre.
This was Gandhi’s first seek advice from to Odisha after the announcement of the election agenda. He had previous visited Bhubaneswar on January 25, Bhawanipatna and Rourkela on February 6 and Koraput on March 8 to reinforce the poll prospects of the Congress, which has been out of energy in the state since 2000.
Both the BJD and BJP hit again at Congress. “People, together with farmers in the state, will keep blessing the Naveen Patnaik-led govt because of his pro-farmer and other welfare measures. Congress can best make false guarantees,” BJD chief and labour minister Susanta Singh said. BJP chief Samir Mohanty slammed Congress and BJD and expressed confidence of BJP’s return to energy in Odisha.
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