ITANAGAR, Dec 15:  The Arunachal Pradesh Congress  Committee (APCC)  today slammed  Chief Minister Pema Khandu and Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju  for continuously lying during the  inauguration of newly created  Pakke-Kessang district  on December 14.
It accused Rijiju for taking credit for developments brought by Congress in the state. Frontier Highway and industrial corridor projects were actually planned by Congress which Kiren Rijiju hijacked and shamelessly included in his election agenda of 2014 and made random announcements of the same to the public to get votes. APCC questioned why his promises of frontier highway and industrial corridor have vanished in thin air.
It was also disappointing to hear Khandu disseminating wrong information on CM Arogya Arunachal Yojna (CMAAY) it said and added the Pema Khandu-led BJP government does not have the patent on the health insurance scheme. It said that  the Chief Minister’s Universal Health Insurance Scheme (CMUHIS) conceived by former Chief Minister Nabam Tuki was  replaced  by CMAAY.  Pema Khandu must  deliver correct information  that  CMUHIS had covered more than  3 lakh population which benefitted  thousands  with  cashless treatment of diseases of all category in a short span of time.
CMAAY has empanelled very few hospitals which are unfamiliar to the population whereas CMUHIS empanelled more than 25 hospitals  popularly known  to the  population and highly equipped with modern technology, the APCC said. 
“The speech delivered by Pema Khandu was full of white lies. He claimed  union ministers  visited  only 50 times in  past  24 years without any development  activities  and   approximately 130 times in his four and half years of reign in the state.  The public of Arunachal Pradesh haven't witnessed ministers visiting  from the Centre to Arunachal 130 times,” it said and demanded that Khandu furnish documents to prove it.

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Kenter Joya Riba

(Managing Editor)
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