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Delhi: Former Chief Minister Delhi and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convener Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday launched the registration for Pujari Granthi Samman Yojana.
He announced this scheme on Monday under which he stated that the priests of temples and the ‘granthis’ of the Gurudwara will receive an honorarium of about Rs 18,000 per month.
He visited the Shri Marghat Wale Baba Mandir at Kashmere Gate today along with his wife Sunita Kejriwal to start the registration for the scheme.
The scheme would be implemented once the AAP from the government wins in the upcoming polls in the national capital.
Keijriwal said that today he is making an important announcement regarding a scheme. The name of the scheme is Pujari Granthi Samman Yojana. Under this, there is a provision to give an honorarium to the priests of temples and the ‘granthis’ of the Gurudwara.
They will be given an honorarium of about Rs 18,000 per month. This is happening for the first time in the country. The priest is a class that has carried forward the rituals from generation to generation. They never paid attention to their family and we never paid attention to them.
He also said that everyone knows how pujaris serve us. Be it the birthday of our kid or the death of a loved one, they have always connected us with God. But these people never gave attention to their own families, and neither did we pay enough attention to them.
“I just hope that the BJP and the Congress governments will learn from this and will implement such schemes in the state run by them.”
Reacting to this, Delhi BJP president Virendraa Sachdeva attacked the AAP government after they announced ‘Pujari Granthi Samman Yojana’ and said that Arvind Kejriwal is now a defeated and desperate leader who is making “populist announcements to stay in power.”
