AGARTALA / NEW DELHI, Feb 19 (TIWN): Delhi Govt led by Kejriwal not only provided free, quality health services but also accident patients are subjected to get free medical services in any private hospital in Delhi. On the contrary in Tripura, first BJP Govt scrapped free medical services and from operation to tests, food, oxygen all started payable directly violating “Right to Live” fundamental rights of the public and now imposed bed charges in ICU even on the poor people. The Delhi poll defeat where Arvind Kejriwal won the election by Kaam-Ki-Raajniti and freeing medical services across Delhi, even free facilities for accident patients in private hospitals, the ‘undeserved’ Chief Minister of Tripura Biplab Deb is just running on the opposite direction of Kejriwal Govt.. Biplab Deb has scrapped free medical services and also imposed bed charge in the ICU for the BPL families also at Rs. 250 and Rs. 500 for APL.

Reportedly, it was Sudip Barman made ICU totally free and now scrapped by Biplab Deb again.

Netizens in Tripura have congratulated Kejriwal Govt on oath taking day along with expressing frustrations after voting for the BJP, which is costing people here with lots of taxes.

A video where Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal said, “Shame on those CMs who take moneys from the public in Govt hospitals for medicines, operations and taxes” is viral in social media as Tripura BJP Govt has scrapped Free-Medical-Services.

Tripura once elected BJP after lots of fake promises made to them including 50,000 Govt jobs in first one year, the party immediately started mass rigging to win the election.

Not only nation but what BJP Govt is doing is violation of  international human rights law.  Right to health refers to and mean the most attainable levels of health that every human being is entitled to. Health has been much regarded as the basic and fundamental human right by the international community under international human rights law. In contrast to all the other human rights, the right to health creates an obligation upon the states to ensure that the right to health is respected, protected and fulfilled, and is duly entitled to all its citizens.  

Article 21 can only be claimed when a person is deprived of his “life” or “personal liberty” by the “State” as defined in Article 12. Violation of the right by private individuals is not within the preview of Article 21.  Article 21 secures two rights:  1)  Right to life, and  2) Right to personal liberty.  

                          ‘RIGHT TO LIFE’   (Article 21, Indian constitution)

‘Everyone has the right to life, liberty and the security of person.’ The right to life is undoubtedly the most fundamental of all rights. All other rights add quality to the life in question and depend on the pre-existence of life itself for their operation. As human rights can only attach to living beings, one might expect the right to life itself to be in some sense primary, since none of the other rights would have any value or utility without it. There would have been no Fundamental Rights worth mentioning if Article 21 had been interpreted in its original sense. This Section will examine the right to life as interpreted and applied by the Supreme Court of India.  Article 21 of the Constitution of India, 1950 provides that, “No person shall be deprived of his life or personal liberty except according to procedure established by law.” 

‘Life’ in Article 21 of the Constitution is not merely the physical act of breathing. It does not connote mere animal existence or continued drudgery through life. It has a much wider meaning which includes right to live with human dignity, right to livelihood, right to health, right to pollution free air, etc.  Right to life is fundamental to our very existence without which we cannot live as a human being and includes all those aspects of life, which go to make a man’s life meaningful, complete, and worth living. It is the only article in the Constitution that has received the widest possible interpretation. Under the canopy of Article 21, so many rights have found shelter, growth, and nourishment. Thus, the bare necessities, minimum and basic requirements that are essential and unavoidable for a person is the core concept of the right to life.