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PM Modi nominated for Nobel Peace Prize for launching world's 'largest healthcare scheme'

BJP's Tamil Nadu unit President Tamilisai Soundararjan Monday nominated Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the Nobel Peace Prize for launching the "world's largest" health care scheme – Ayushman Bharat.

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BJP's Tamil Nadu unit President Tamilisai Soundararjan Monday nominated Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the Nobel Peace Prize for launching the "world's largest" health care scheme – Ayushman Bharat.

She along with her husband, Professor Dr P Soundarajan, who is the head of department and senior consultant in nephrology at a private university, has also nominated Modi for Nobel, a press release from the party’s state unit said.

"Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been nominated for Nobel Peace Prize 2019 for launching the world's largest healthcare scheme Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana- Ayushman Bharat by Dr Tamilisai Soundararajan..." the release said. Modi launched the healthcare scheme on Sunday.

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The "path-breaking initiative" of the "visionary" Prime Minister will transform the lives of millions of people, especially the underprivileged and vulnerable, it said. "The last date for Nomination for Nobel Peace Prize 2019 is January 31, 2019. The nomination processes start in September each year. University Professors and Members of Parliament among others can also nominate our Prime Minister," the release added.

“As a doctor, I have seen sufferings of poor people at times of medical emergencies for want of money to get quality medical care. I have witnessed how government insurance schemes helped patients during my higher education in Canada. Now our PMs #AyushmanBharat yojana a boon to poor. @PMOIndia,” she tweeted.

Modi rolled out the Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PMJAY)-Ayushman Bharat, and had termed it a "game-changer initiative to serve the poor". It was the 'biggest' government-sponsored healthcare scheme in the world, he had said, adding "the number of beneficiaries is almost equal to the population of Canada, Mexico and the US taken together.

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