AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal on Friday announced the resumption of Jai Bhim Yojana and Farishtey Yojana and accused the BJP of deliberately stalling these initiatives after his imprisonment. While the BJP criticized the Kejriwal saying he is trying to mislead the people.  Addressing a press conference, Kejriwal said the Jai Bhim Yojana was one of his governments major efforts to ensure equal education opportunities for underprivileged children. The scheme provides for financial assistance to students from SC, ST, OBC, and economically weaker sections for coaching in IITs and civil services exams.  "Coaching for IIT and civil services is very expensive. Our responsibility is to provide equal opportunity for poor children, and this scheme was started to fulfil that purpose. However, after I went to jail, it was deliberately stalled. Today, we are restarting the scheme," Kejriwal said. Terming it an another attempt to mislead the people, BJP leader and south Delhi MP, Ramvir Singh Bidhuri criticized the Kejriwal saying super Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Dummy Chief Minister Atishi have again put a bundle of lies in front of the public by announcing the re-implementation of this scheme. Bidhuri said that Kejriwals statement that this scheme could not be implemented due to Corona and his arrest is completely untrue. He said that the Delhi government had announced to implement this scheme in 2018, but in 2022 this scheme collapsed because the government did not pay the 46 private institutions with which it had signed an agreement. The government had contracted with these institutes to provide coaching to poor students. Kejriwal said the scheme will continue to offer a Rs 2,500 stipend to each student and there will be no cap on the number of beneficiaries. "We believe the governments money should be spent on education, and we do not put limits on this spending." Farishtey, the other scheme reinstated, provides for free treatment to road accident victims in any hospital, including private ones.According to Kejriwal, the scheme saved 26,000 lives before it was stalled. "We saved many lives through this scheme, and we will ensure it continues to serve Delhis citizens," he said. Delhi Chief Minister Atishi, who was present at the press conference, hailed the party leader and the two schemes. "The Chief Minister Jai Bhim Yojana was stalled by hatching a conspiracy to send Arvind Kejriwal to jail. But all these conspiracies failed in front of Arvind Kejriwals vision of uplifting the children of poor and deprived classes through education," she wrote in a social media post later. The AAP chief shared that they (BJP) put him in jail and deliberately stopped work that was meant to benefit Delhi, subjecting Delhiites to hardship and oppression.

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