Kejriwal arrest: After Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal issued his second directive from the Enforcement Directorate’s (ED) lock-up regarding the provision of free medicines and pathological tests at government-operated mohalla clinics, said Secretary (Planning) Niharika Rai in a statement on Tuesday, adding that some people are deliberately spreading confusion about subsidies for political gains and the people of Delhi should not pay attention to them.
The statement issued by the Planning Department of Delhi government said that it has been brought to the notice that speculations and rumours are being spread by notorious elements with vested interests that with the arrest of the CM by ED, welfare schemes and subsidies given by the government will be stopped.
It said that even as the law takes its own course in the process of criminal investigation, it merits clarification that administration of schemes and governance are never specific to individuals and shall continue in normal course, as in the past. Such rumours create an atmosphere of fear within the general public, therefore, it is necessary to inform the public.
“There will be no disruption of any kind in disbursement of admissible subsidies, pensions and welfare benefits. Social welfare schemes are funded with public money through the consolidated fund, backed by budgetary allocations. Social welfare funds are neither the personal property of any individual or political entity nor funded by an individual or entity’s personal money. There is an architecture of civil services and processes laid down in Delhi, which continues as usual,” it added.
The statement concluded saying, “These public services, social welfare schemes and subsidies are not at all affected by the arrest of the CM. People should not be misled by any fear-mongering and malicious disinformation in this regard.”
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