Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday took to Twitter to allege that the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has started an investigation on the Mohalla Clinics project.
He accused the CBI of taking three lakh pages of documents including patient prescriptions and “summoning” several senior officers for questioning. He said in his tweet, “Del govt has spent Rs 3 lacs to get these pages photocopied. Spl permission was taken by officers for this money. I challenge Modi ji if these Rs 3 lacs photocopying charges and CBI officers’ salary could be recovered out of this investigation [sic]”
Taking a jibe at Prime Minster Narandra Modi, he asked the PM to open Mohalla Clinics across the country “instead of closing Delhi’s Mohalla Clinics”.
Mohalla Clinics, one of the flagship projects of the AAP government, was started with the aim to provide free primary health care to the people near their homes. The CM has earlier said that the ACB and CBI were on a “witch hunt” and had started picking up random files from the Delhi Jal Board of which he is minister-in-charge, to “frame him in something”.
A senior CBI officer said preliminary investigation involving Mohalla Clinics was already under way.