New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal is confident about winning neighbouring state Punjab. He said AAP would end the game for the BJP and the Congress in the state. “We are winning. I am told Delhi will be repeated there,” he said in an interaction with top editors. “The Congress may be the runner-up as Akalis are in bad shape.”
He said AAP would deploy workers in every polling booth and the party has already started door-to-door campaigning across Punjab. “By the time others wake up, their game will be over.” Regarding his party's plans for the Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, he said, “We will go step by step. We don't have the bandwidth in UP.” At the interaction session, Kejriwal praised the initiatives carried out by his government in Delhi and said public health, quality of education and, the health sector would remain top priority of his government. He also said special cadre would be constituted to keep teachers and doctors away from administrative work to maintain quality of services. Kejriwal blamed successive governments for decline in quality of schools and hospitals in Delhi.
“Public health and education over a period of 20 years has been declined. No investments were made in these sectors. Previous governments had vested interests to boost the business of private schools and hospitals,” he pointed out. The chief minister said his government was making sure that free medicines were available at all government hospitals and that it was in the works of introducing a comprehensive health card system covering the entire population of Delhi, so that medical data would be available for all.
