AAP chief and Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal on Monday slammed the Centre for its comment on ‘freebies’ or ‘revdi culture’ in states. He claimed an atmosphere is being created against free government welfare services by terming them ‘revdi culture’, rather than planning to strengthen them in the 75th year of independence.
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Kejriwal demanded the government should provide free good education, healthcare, 300 units of electricity to every household and offer an ‘unemployment allowance’.
“There are some people who call the provision of free education, free treatment by government facilities as ‘revdi’ or ‘freebies’. An atmosphere is being created in the country against provisions of free education at government schools and free treatment at government hospitals.
“We are celebrating the 75th anniversary of the country’s independence and we should be planning on strengthening such facilities but we are creating an atmosphere against them” he alleged.
Launching an attack at the BJP, he said “These people waived off the loans of Rs 10 lakh crore of their friends but no one is talking about it. Such people should be billed as traitors and investigations carried out against them,” he added.
According to them, “Children should not get free education with government money, the poor should not get free treatment.” These people want to use government money only to waive off the loans of their friends, he further said.
Kejriwal said, 39 countries like Denmark, Norway give free and good education to their children. 9 countries like Canada, UK provide free treatment. 16 countries like America, Germany give unemployment allowance. This is why these countries have become rich. These countries do not forgive the loans of their friends worth lakhs and crores.
He said, neither nepotism nor friendship, now only “Indianism” will work. “A party in the country runs only on nepotism. While another one on friendship, which forgives the debts of its friends.”
PM Modi had last month cautioned people against what he called a “revdi culture” of offering freebies for votes and said this was “very dangerous” for the development of the country.