New Delhi, With Meeting polls drawing nearer, A supremo Arvind Kejriwal Thursday introduced the roll out of the Delhi authorities’s Mukhya Mantri Mahila Samman Yojana, and promised to boost the month-to-month help from ₹1,000 to ₹2,100 post-elections.
He, nonetheless, clarified the cash may very well be credited into beneficiaries’ accounts solely after elections because the dates are more likely to be introduced quickly.
Delhi Chief Minister Atishi, in the meantime, stated if the Mannequin Code of Conduct comes into power after January 13, the primary installment will probably be transferred into the financial institution accounts of eligible ladies earlier than elections.
Kejriwal introduced the roll out of the scheme whereas talking at an occasion organised on the A headquarters, and attended by a lot of the social gathering’s ladies staff and supporters.
The registration for the Mukhya Mantri Mahila Samman Yojana, which was introduced within the funds 2024-25 by then finance minister and now chief minister Atishi, will start from Friday, he stated.
The scheme initially proposed to offer ₹1,000 per thirty days to all eligible ladies in Delhi aged above 18 years. “The registration for the scheme will begin tomorrow. It is going to be for ₹2,100,” Kejriwal stated amid cheers of the gathering.
“This scheme is for empowering ladies and addressing their monetary wants. Whereas the BJP calls it free ‘revdis,’ I see it as a step in the direction of strengthening our society. The BJP asks from the place the cash will come, however I stated we’ll give free electrical energy, and we did it,” Kejriwal stated.
The A frontrunner additionally expressed confidence his social gathering will carry out magnificently within the polls, and urged ladies to actively assist them. “If all ladies work collectively, we’ll safe greater than 60 seats,” he stated.
The A, pitted in opposition to a assured BJP making an attempt to upstage it within the polls due earlier than February subsequent 12 months, believes the announcement would enhance it probabilities within the elections.
Kejriwal asserted that he was a “magician” of accounts and knew how to economize to fund the scheme.
BJP leaders who raised questions concerning the scheme and created doubts “mustn’t fear any longer”, he stated.
The A authorities allotted ₹2,000 crore for the scheme below the funds. The eligibility standards of the potential beneficiaries laid down that the lady shouldn’t be employed with the federal government or receiving pension, they usually shouldn’t be paying GST or earnings tax.
The scheme is more likely to profit round 45 lakh eligible ladies, a big quantity which the A believes would assist the social gathering bolster its efficiency within the ballot, particularly due to the promise to boost the quantity to ₹2,100 after the elections.
The BJP, which is but to announce its manifesto, attacked Kejriwal, asking why the A authorities didn’t implement such a scheme for girls in Punjab regardless of an identical announcement made by him earlier than the elections within the state in 2022.
“Kejriwal is just repeating his faux promise. Even in the course of the Lok Sabha polls in Delhi, they acquired ladies to replenish kinds however paid nothing to them,” Delhi BJP president Virendra Sachdeva claimed.
Delhi Chief Minister Atishi stated the honorarium quantity will probably be raised to ₹2,100 after the elections.
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