Doctors should be given Bharat Ratna: Delhi CM Kejriwal

TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ The Delhi Assembly has unanimously passed a resolution recommending that Bharat Ratna be conferred on doctors of the country collectively. The resolution also recommended that the city government nominate the names of only doctors and paramedical staff for the Padma Awards.

Opposition BJP supported the resolution but demanded that other ‘corona (Covid) warriors’ such as sanitation workers, teachers and policemen, be nominated for this award.

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA Saurabh Bhardwaj introduced the resolution on the second and the last day of the Monsoon Session. Speaking on it, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said that doctors served patients when their own families did not want to touch them.

‘The Delhi government has decided we will recommend names of only doctors and paramedic staff for Padma Awards. We have to recommend these names by September 15,’ he said. The city government made an announcement in this regard on July 27 and it has already received 2,100 nominations so far, Kejriwal said.

‘We urge the Centre to give Padma Awards to all such doctors across the country and we also demand that Bharat Ratna be given collectively to Bahartiya (Indian) doctors,’ the chief minister said.