Chandigarh : Haryana Chief Minister Sh. Nayab Singh Saini said that while the present Haryana Government, immediately after taking oath, decided in its first Cabinet meeting to provide 10 per cent reservation to the DSC community, the reservation quota for the DSC community is being scrapped in Punjab. He said that despite clearing the selection process and medical tests, the Punjab Government has sent DSC youth back home at the time of joining. In view of the actions of the Aam Aadmi Party and Congress, the people of Punjab will give both parties a befitting reply in the upcoming Assembly elections. After the formation of a BJP government in Punjab, the DSC community will be provided the benefit of reservation.
Chief Minister Sh. Nayab Singh Saini made these remarks while addressing a Vimukt Jati Samaj Sammelan organised in Faridkot, Punjab, on Sunday. Comparing the policies of the Haryana and Punjab governments with supporting figures, he criticised the Punjab Government and appealed to the people to elect a BJP government in Punjab in the upcoming Assembly elections so that the neglect faced by the people of Punjab during the Congress and Aam Aadmi Party regimes can be addressed and the people of Punjab can also benefit from policies similar to those implemented in Haryana.
Chief Minister Sh. Nayab Singh Saini said that immediately after the present government was formed in Haryana, it provided a 10 per cent reservation quota for the DSC community. Subsequently, 604 youth from the DSC community were given jobs without “parchi-kharchi” as part of the recruitment of 5,600 police personnel. Similarly, 3,200 Group-D candidates were recently recruited in Haryana, of whom 334 economically disadvantaged youth from the DSC community were provided jobs. On the other hand, in Punjab, youth from deprived communities are not being given joining even after being selected through recruitment.
The Chief Minister said that the truth about those claiming to be an “Aam Aadmi” and an honest government was exposed before not only the people of Punjab but the entire country during the recent recruitment of Excise Inspectors in Punjab. The irregularities in this recruitment have exposed the claims of honesty made by the Mann Government. He said that candidates who had written names such as “State Bank of India”, “DIPS” and “Ik Din Karma Wala” along with their names were selected in this recruitment. The result has been stayed by the Punjab and Haryana High Court. He said that jobs are being sold in Punjab in such a manner, which is a blatant betrayal of the youth of the state.
Sh. Nayab Singh Saini said that people from Punjab often come to meet him in Chandigarh and say that the reforms implemented by the BJP Government in Haryana should also be implemented in Punjab. He said that the people of Punjab are ready to vote for the BJP in the upcoming elections for this purpose. He said that in Punjab, the government and the Chief Minister are merely entertaining people with jokes and rhetoric, whereas the real responsibility of a government is to work in the interest of the people, in which the Punjab Government has completely failed.
Sh. Nayab Singh Saini said that before forming the government in Haryana, the BJP had made 217 announcements, of which 70 have been fulfilled during the one-and-a-half-year tenure of the government. He asked the Punjab Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal how many of the 57 promises made before the elections had been fulfilled, saying that the people of Punjab want to know the answer.
Addressing the women present at the programme, he said that the Haryana Government had promised to provide financial assistance of Rs. 2,100 per month to mothers and sisters. To fulfil this promise, the Government made a provision of Rs. 5,000 crore in its first Budget and Rs. 6,500 crore in its second Budget. During the one-and-a-half-year tenure of the government, Rs. 1,650 crore has already been transferred to the bank accounts of women. In Punjab, however, a promise was made to provide Rs. 1,000 to women, but even after five years, with only four months remaining before the next elections, the women of Punjab are still awaiting this benefit.
The Chief Minister said that Prime Minister Sh. Narendra Modi introduced the Ayushman yojana to provide healthcare to poor people. Haryana expanded its coverage through the Chirayu scheme along with Ayushman Bharat, bringing 1.5 crore people under its ambit. In recent times, 40 lakh people in Haryana have received free treatment of up to Rs. 5 lakh, for which the Government has spent Rs. 4,000 crore. Poor families no longer have to sell land or jewellery to meet medical expenses; the Government takes responsibility for the cost of treatment. He said that following the initiative of the Prime Minister, all senior citizens above 70 years of age in Haryana are also receiving treatment at government expense, for which Rs. 8 crore has already been spent.
Sh. Nayab Singh Saini said that under the leadership of the Prime Minister, the BJP Government has provided lakhs of people belonging to the DSC and DNT communities with houses and plots in both urban and rural areas. In Haryana, the State Government has handed over keys to 1.60 lakh houses to poor families over the past 12 years. The present Government has already organised three programmes in Sonipat, Jind and Gurugram to provide houses to poor families from the DSC community. The fourth such programme will soon be organised in Faridabad, where keys to flats will be handed over to 4,000 families.
The Chief Minister said that the Aam Aadmi Party in Punjab had promised to increase the pension for senior citizens from Rs. 1,500 to Rs. 2,500, but it has failed to fulfil this promise to date. In contrast, senior citizens in Haryana are being provided Rs. 3,200 as a mark of respect. The Haryana Government is providing LPG cylinders to the kitchens of poor families at Rs. 500. Free dialysis is also being provided to kidney patients. While apprising the gathering of other welfare schemes of the Haryana Government, he assured that these schemes would also be implemented in Punjab after the formation of a BJP government in the state.
Chief Minister Sh. Nayab Singh Saini said that ensuring equal opportunities, social dignity and integration into the mainstream of development for deprived communities is the top priority of the BJP Government. He said that merely acknowledging the historical injustice faced by these communities is not enough; concrete policies and sensitive governance are required to address and eliminate such injustice.