Excelsior Correspondent
KATHUA, June 8: Hitting out at Congress for raking up the AIIMS issue, BJP State general secretary and MLA Kathua, Rajiv Jasrotia has said that credit goes to Minister of State in the PMO Jitendra Singh for putting the cause of AIIMS for Jammu before Central Government vigorously and properly.
He also demanded an enquiry into delay in establishing AIIMS, sanctioned 10 years ago. “The foundation for AIIMS was laid 10 years ago during Vajpayee Government when Sushma Swaraj was the Union Health Minister. However, after the change of guard at the Centre, the Congress Government did not carry the project forward and the building was later converted into Super Specialty Hospital,” he said in a statement.
Jasrotia said that AIIMS was always meant for Jammu and this demand was inspired by the realization that there is a huge regional imbalance of health care services between Kashmir and Jammu. “Congress and other political groups, which were responsible for having delayed the IIT as well as AIIMS for Jammu, are now trying to project themselves as “holier than thou” and pleading for the cause of Jammu,” he said and added that the people of Jammu needed to be made aware of the sequence of events over the last 40 years which resulted in disparity in health care delivery.
Jasrotia made it clear that BJP was not averse to opening of AIIMS in any other part of the State but it should also be established in Jammu at the same time. “The Government is looking for innovative ideas all the time to make the process of governance effective and people friendly, and every effort is being made to reach out to the common people and get feedback from them,” he added.
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