Demanding appointment of doctors at the bus stands and all the Government buses, the Punjab Congress on Tuesday declared that if voted to power, the party will provide the facility for free.
“The State Government must appoint medical staff or a doctor in each Government bus. The Government collects the full fare from the public, but who will care about their healthIJ” asked the Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC) vice-president Avtar Henry.
He said: “There is a lack of quality hospitals and clinics in the state and yet this shameless government is sending doctors to each and every trains and buses for ‘tirath-darshan’ (religious tours) for vote bank.”
Henry's response came when he was asked to comment on state government's initiative where government-run buses are utilized for free religious tours. Under this initiative, a doctor is also travelling along with the pilgrims in buses or trains.
Earlier, senior BJP leader laxmi Kanta Chawla too criticized the government and wrote a letter to the Chief Minister Prakash Singh Badal in this regard.