JAMMU : Union Minister of State in Prime Minister’s Office Dr Jitendra Singh today said the Opposition will not be allowed the hijack the AIIMS issue and asserted that it will come up here then elsewhere in the state.
“We want to make it clear that AIIMS will first be established in Jammu as it was announced for this region,” Dr Singh told reporters at a press conference held here this morning as a part of ‘Saal Ek Shuruaat Anek’.
He said that BJP will not allow opposition to hijack the issue. “AIIMS will be constructed in Jammu first, I assure this. Let it be constructed anywhere later in the state,” said the Union Minister.
Referring to the Super Speciality Hospital in Jammu, he said, “the foundation for AIIMS was laid 10 years ago during Vajpayee government when Sushma Swaraj was the Union Health Minister.”
He said that after the change of guard at the Centre, the Congress government did not carried the project forward and the building was later converted into Super Speciality Hospital. Pertinent to mention here that former Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad was being credited by the Congress party for SSH in Jammu.
“But, I want to make it clear that, we will not get AIIMS issue hijacked,” Dr Singh said, adding that AIIMS will have to be set up in Jammu first. The coordination committee on AIIMS headed by president Bar Association of Jammu had already announced to intensify agitation over setting up of AIIMS in Jammu. Jammu had also observed shutdown twice over issue.
(AGENCIES)
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