Saturday, March 1, 2014

Modi, Congress & Mulayam helping Dr Ketan Desai's re-entry into MCI: AAP

According to AAP, Congress, BJP and Samajwadi Party have joined hands in Dr Ketan Desai's endeavor to enter MCI yet again
 
Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Admi Party (AAP) has accused Congress, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Samajwadi Party (SP) providing patronage to Dr Ketan Desai, the former chief of Medical Council of India (MCI). According to AAP, despite the ongoing criminal cases pending against Dr Desai, these parties are helping him to gain re-entry in the MCI, which oversees medical education in the country.
 
"Such is the strength of this medical mafia (Dr Desai), the ideological differences have been set aside by these political parties and everyone has come together in support of this known corrupt person which is part of their one common principle - corruption and patronage to the corrupt. They have thus displayed their complete contempt for medical education in India and thus jeopardising the entire healthcare system in India," AAP said in a release.
 
AAP alleged that in October 2013, the Gujarat University, at the behest of Narendra Modi-led BJP government, nominated Dr Desai as a member of the MCI despite two cases pending against him in the court of law.
 
AAP also flayed Congress leader and union health minister, Ghulam Nabi Azad, for unfairly transferring health secretary Keshav Desiraju for the simple reason that he resisted the Congress and BJP facilitated return of Dr Desai to the helm of MCI.
 
AAP also released copies of a letter written to Azad by Mulayam Singh Yadav in December 2013 taking up Dr Desai’s case saying that he was found clean in five out of seven cases against him, and there was a stay in another case.
 
In 2012, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had filed a charge sheet against Dr Desai for allegedly taking bribe from the management of a Patiala-based private medical college. He was also arrested later. In 2001, the Delhi High Court had removed Desai as MCI president on charges of 'misuse of office'.
 
After the arrest of Dr Desai in April 2010, MCI was dissolved by the government and a board of governors managed the affairs of the Council for three and half years. However the MCI was again restored in early November 2013 by the government ignoring its earlier commitment in Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha to establish an overarching body called National Commission for Human Resources for Health (NCHRH), the AAP alleged.

http://moneylife.in/article/modi-congress-mulayam-helping-dr-ketan-desais-re-entry-into-mci-aap/36542.html

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