SAD condemns AAP for spending crores to ‘inaugurate’ hospital ward

The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) today condemned the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government for spending crores of rupees and bringing Patiala to a standstill to “inaugurate” a ward of the Mata Kaushalya hospital after installing machinery supplied from the centre during the Covid period.
Asserting that chief minister Bhagwant Mann was wasting crores of rupees to befool Punjabis that a special facility had been opened at the Mata Kaushalya hospital, SAD legal cell president Arshdeep Singh Kler said “the truth is that the building has only been given a fresh coat of paint and machinery supplied by the central government has been opened and installed after a gap of two years”. Mr Kler said even now nothing concrete has been done. “The AAP government has posted nine doctors at the hospital for the one day visit of AAP Convener Arvind Kejriwal instead of posting them permanently to the hospital”.
Asking the chief minister to explain this profligacy, Mr Kler said “you cannot befool Punjabis by holding mega events to inaugurate re-painted buildings as you have done earlier also in the case of the so-called Schools of Eminence”. He also condemned the AAP government for bringing Patiala to a standstill to “host” Arvind Kejriwal and installing 660 hoardings in the city over a distance of 1.5 kilometers. “With Punjabis not ready to become a part of this hoax, government employees have been forced to attend the programme and PRTC buses have been taken out from various routes to ferry the employees to the event site”. Asking the chief minister whether he was deliberately lowering the status of Kejriwal, the SAD leader said “such events were inaugurated by zila parishad level leaders during the SAD tenure in government”. He also gave the instance of how the foundation stone of the Mata Kaushalaya hospital which was demolished in 2011 to be rebuilt again was laid by the then Secretary health and finally inaugurated by then health minister Madan Mohan Mittal in 2014.