Chandigarh, November 6
A day after Arvind Kejriwal offered ‘help’ to implement the ‘Mukhyamantri Teerth Yatra’ scheme, Haryana Chief Minister M L Khattar on Monday asked his Delhi counterpart to focus on protecting people from the worsening air quality in the national capital.
Khattar asserted that Haryana is fully capable of implementing welfare schemes. He said the state would be “happy to help” Kejriwal if he faces any problems in governing Delhi.
“If you face any problem in running the governance of Delhi then please ask, we will be happy to help you,” Khattar further said.
Pollution levels in Delhi-NCR on Monday morning were recorded around seven to eight times above the government-prescribed safe limit, as a toxic haze persisted over the region for the seventh consecutive day.
The Mukhyamantri Teerth Yatra Yojana was launched by Kejriwal on July 12, 2019. Under the scheme, the Delhi government offers free travel packages for pilgrimage to senior citizens from the national capital.
“In the entire country, the Mukhyamantri Teerth Yatra Yojana has been running only in Delhi till now. For the first time, the Aam Aadmi Party government ran such a scheme in Delhi. Under this scheme, we have facilitated pilgrimage for more than 75,000 elderly people of Delhi. We are happy that BJP is trying to work by learning from our government,” Kejriwal said, tagging a recent post by Khattar.
“Khattar Sahib, if there is any problem in its implementation then please ask, we will be happy to help the people of Haryana,” he added.
In his recent post on X, Khattar said, “The state government will provide free railway travel to pilgrimage places like Ayodhya, Varanasi, Prayagraj, Mathura, Amritsar, Patna Sahib. For this we have created Mukhyamantri Teerth Yatra Yojana for people above 60 years. Definitely, you should take advantage of this scheme.”
