Officials with knowledge of the situation claimed deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia met with lieutenant governor VK Saxena to ask him to approve the files pertaining to the Dilli Ki Yogshala project.
“I have requested the LG that this programme should not be stopped. More than 17,000 people who were affected by Covid and others were benefited by learning Yoga, and keeping the citizens healthy is the responsibility of the government,” Sisodia said, according to an official statement.
According to the statement, the LG has assured Sisodia that he will go through all the files.
According to the statement, Sisodia further claimed that the BJP was forcing authorities to halt the government’s main initiative.
“I told LG Saxena that the Dilli Ki Yogshala programme is very beneficial for people of Delhi and these 17,000 people come from common backgrounds and cannot hire Yoga instructors on their own. I have requested the LG to go out of the way to help these people,” he said.
Regarding the deputy CM’s visit, the LG made no remarks.
The BJP, however, disregarded Sisodia’s accusation as baseless. “Like many other issues, the Delhi government did not get the appropriate authority’s approval before starting this scheme. The file has already been delivered to the LG. “In a metropolis of two crore people, the project would not have benefited only 17,000 people over the past 18 months if the government had genuinely marketed it,” said Praveen Shankar Kapoor, a BJP spokesperson in Delhi.
The government offers free yoga lessons at 600 different venues throughout Delhi as part of the “Dilli Ki Yogshala” scheme. These yoga courses are offered in public areas and parks where anybody can attend.