The senior Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader and spokesperson Saurabh Bhardwaj on Monday said the Delhi High Court has approved the allegations made by AAP that Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ruled Municipal Corporation Delhi (MCD) has collected Rs 221 crores from the retired employees in the name of cashless insurance in private hospitals but did not pay a single penny to the private hospitals.
Bhardwaj said that Delhi High Court bench of Chief Justice BN Patel and Justice Jyoti Singh has come down heavily on the BJP ruled MCD saying that this is a criminal breach of trust.
He said that the Delhi High Court observed that the BJP ruled MCD has not yet registered any of the hospitals under this scheme this means that the BJP ruled MCD has taken the money from the employees but in reality has not initiated the process of the scheme.
Bhardwaj said that this shameful act of the BJP has created havoc among the 34,000 retired employees of the North MCD and they are not getting any medical assistance.
“On one side they take and waste money of the Arvind Kejriwal government and on the other side they are doing corruption with the money of their own employees; the situation so bad that the BJP’s own Central Government also doesn’t believe the MCD,” he said.
Bhardwaj said, "Some months back the AAP raised an issue that the retired employees of the BJP ruled MCD are facing a lot of problems related to medical assistance. The retired employees of BJP ruled MCD had opted cashless insurance scheme under the BJP-ruled MCD and now they are suffering. The scheme is that while retirement the employee will pay certain money to the MCD by which they will ensure a free treatment in any hospital of Delhi.