Kejri ‘dismayed’ at Haryana CM not responding to letter

Chandigarh, November 12

After challenging his Haryana counterpart to conduct surprise inspections at mohalla clinics in the national capital in a recent letter, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal sent another letter to Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar on Monday, expressing dismay at not getting any response to his earlier communique.

In the beginning of the month, Kejriwal had written to Khattar expressing his wish to inspect some state-run dispensaries in Haryana on November 12. Further, he had also invited Khattar to visit mohalla clinics, which have been set up by the AAP dispensation, to check the “ground reality” of the health institutions of Delhi.

“I had written a letter to you on November 2, but received no reply. I felt a little bad about this. No matter how many political differences we may have, it is expected that a Chief Minister will respond to the letter of another CM,” Kejriwal wrote to Khattar in his latest letter.

In the communication, the Delhi CM mentions about inviting Khattar to visit mohalla clinics in the national capital, while expressing his wish to visit some government dispensaries in Haryana.

“You have not replied to my (November 2) letter. Should I assume that you agree with the fact that hospitals and schools in Delhi have become better and that the condition of schools and hospitals in Haryana is not good?” wrote the Aam Aadmi Party leader.

With state assembly polls in Haryana due next year and AAP eyeing to wrest power from the ruling BJP, Kejriwal said in his letter that “this time people are not going to vote on the basis of caste and religion…” — PTI