Ayushman Bharat a PR exercise, PM’s another Jumla”: Kejriwal

TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ Delhi Chief Minister and AAP National Convener Arvind Kejriwal claimed that Ayushman Bharat, the healthcare scheme launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday, is a public relation exercise which will prove to be another “jumla” (rhetoric).

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) termed the scheme “another white elephant in the making” and alleged that it covers only six lakh out of 50 lakh families in Delhi. “Pl read – why Ayushman Bharat is another PR exercise and will prove another jumla,” Mr Kejriwal said in tweet while referring to the AAP statement.

The prime minister rolled out the Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PMJAY)-Ayushman Bharat from Ranchi Sunday, and termed it a “game-changer initiative to serve the poor”. The health scheme would come into effect from today (Sunday), he said.

“PMJAY-Ayushman Bharat is the biggest government-sponsored healthcare scheme in the world. The number of beneficiaries is almost equal to the population of Canada, Mexico and the US taken together,” PM Modi said.