Bhubaneswar: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Wednesday appealed to the people of Odisha to bring BJP to power in the State for the implementation of Ayushman Bharat health scheme.
While addressing the BJP’s ‘Vijay Sankalp’ rally in Bhawanipatna, the district headquarters town of Kalahandi, Singh said that poor people would get Rs 5 lakh health insurance cover under the health scheme.
Irrespective of caste, creed and religion, all the people at the age of 70 years or above would be covered under the Ayushman Bharat scheme. The scheme will be implemented as soon as a saffron government is formed in Odisha, he pointed out.
Hitting out at the Congress government, Singh said that all the Congress leaders had promised to eradicate poverty, but failed. However, Narendra Modi has started the process to end poverty,” he said.
25 crore people have been lifted from below the poverty line during the nine-year rule of Modi, the defence minister said.
Singh said: “There will be no family in India which will not have a pucca house, pipe drinking water and LPG gas connection in the next 5 years.
“Recalling the Kalahandi situation, the BJP leader said that people from NGOs were coming to Kalahandi and writing articles on ‘poverty tourism’, as the place was known for hunger, starvation death and poverty. However, things have undergone a massive change during the nine-year rule of the Modi government at the Centre, he said.
The minister urged the voters to bless BJP’s Kalahandi Lok Sabha candidate Malavika Devi who would highlight the local issues at the national level.
“I have been to Odisha many times before. But this time the situation looks different. Now, people are saying that BJP will win 21 out of 21 Lok Sabha seats in State”, he said.
