Hyderabad:
The K Chandrashekar Rao government of Telangana has produced an additional U-turn with its selection to dovetail the state wellness scheme Aarogyasri to Aayushman Bharat.
Chief Secretary Somesh Kumar informed the Prime Minister for the duration of a video conference with all leading state bureaucrats that Telangana chief minister has taken a selection to that impact.
Telangana was a single of the 5 states that had refused to implement the Central government’s flagship wellness scheme when it was launched in September 2018.
The state, along with Odisha, Delhi, Kerala and Punjab, claimed that its personal wellness scheme was greater and it would not implement the Central programme till its issues had been addressed.
Aarogyasri, Telangana had mentioned, covers 70 per cent of the state’s population when the Ayushman Bharat will only advantage 80 lakh individuals.
There, on the other hand, was speculation that at the time, just ahead of the state election, Mr Rao’s government was not prepared to enable the Central Scheme, believing that it would the BJP an edge.
His present selection to dovetail Aarogyasri, on the other hand, was the second time in the very same month that the Chief Minister reversed a selection. His celebration had supported the all-India bandh on December 8 against the farm laws and his ministers even sat on protests blocking highways. But he has not apparently had second thoughts.
The chief minister has announced that procurement at the villages would be stopped from this season. Agriculture minister Niranjan Reddy has mentioned the farm laws really should be offered a opportunity to play out at least for a couple of seasons to know its effect.
Mr Rao had visited Delhi earlier this month when he met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah, triggering speculation about his party’s closeness to the BJP. Mr Rao has usually maintained that his celebration is non-aligned and ahead of final year’s common election, attempted to kind a Third Front.
Former minister Mohammed Ali Shabbir has slammed the state government for the selection.
“CM KCR first enacted the drama of opposing new farm laws of BJP government and even supported the shutdown call given by the farmers’ organisations. He then took a U-turn and announced support for the contentious agricultural laws. KCR also took a U-turn on the implementation of Ayushman Bharat Yojana in Telangana which he had opposed earlier on the pretext that Aarogyasri was more comprehensive and better. Therefore, instead of enacting the dramas of rivalry to cheat people, KCR should officially merge TRS with the BJP,” he mentioned.
Before the municipal elections, KCR had mentioned in the second week of December he would revive efforts for a Third Front and even host a meeting of leaders but post the regional body elections, in which the BJP produced significant gains, the chief minister has not produced any work in that path.