AAP chief stressed need for increase in healthcare spending, suggesting rise to 10 per cent of GDP, along with removal of taxes on health insurance.
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00:00We have to pay taxes while we are alive, but now the government has made such a state that
00:07we have to pay taxes even after death.
00:10And they dare to try to fulfill their dreams amidst this tax terrorism.
00:17The truth is that today a young middle class couple, a married couple,
00:24family planning has become a financial decision for them.
00:29When they give birth to a child, they first think,
00:32can we afford to raise this child?
00:36Where has our society reached?
00:39Because of all these problems, many people are leaving the country.
00:43In 2020, 85,000 Indians left the country and went abroad.
00:50And after three years, the figure of 2023 shows that 2,16,219 people left the country.
00:59This is a great loss and grief for our country.
01:03That is when the country is created.
01:06But the surprising thing is that those who earn crores of rupees,
01:10those who travel in cars worth lakhs,
01:12journalists who wear expensive suits,
01:15sit in an air-conditioned studio and raise questions about the small comforts that the middle class gets.
01:21Politicians who live in big government buildings get free electricity, water,
01:28and all the facilities of Ashram with their own money.
01:33They do not call it free.
01:36We tried our best to give comfort to the middle class in Delhi.
01:39And we will continue to do so.
01:42We will not leave any stone unturned in bringing the middle class up.
01:45We will not leave any stone unturned in giving them comfort.
01:48And today we appeal to the central government
01:51that the real superpowers of our country should recognize the middle class of India.
01:56Today I announce that me and the Ramadhani Party
02:00will become the voice of the middle class from the streets to the parliament.
02:04We will raise their voice. We will raise their issues.
02:07The country's next budget is due in two weeks.
02:10In this Lok Sabha meeting,
02:12the MPs of the Aam Aadmi Party will raise the issues of the middle class in the parliament.
02:17The voice of the middle class will be heard in the parliament.
02:21We ask that the country's next budget should be dedicated to the middle class.
02:27Today I am making seven demands to the central government.
02:31Seven point demands from the middle class.
02:34First, the education budget should be increased from 2% to 10%.
02:40The fees of private schools should be imposed throughout the country.
02:44Second, subsidies and scholarships should be given for higher education.
02:50Third, the health budget should also be increased to 10%
02:55and tax should be removed from health insurance.
02:58Fourth, the limit of income tax should be increased from 7 lakhs to at least 10 lakhs.
03:05Fifth, GST should be abolished on essential commodities.
03:13Sixth, a strong retirement plan and pension schemes should be made for senior citizens
03:20and senior citizens should be given free and good treatment in all government and private hospitals throughout the country.
03:27Seventh, the elderly should be given a 50% concession in the first railway which was closed.
03:34It should be restarted.
03:36This is our manifesto for the middle class.