New Delhi, The Delhi Excessive Court docket on Thursday questioned the petitioner on the maintainability of a plea towards the A’s latest ballot promise of paying a stipend to ladies below the Mukhya Mantri Mahila Samman Yojana scheme within the nationwide capital.
Justice Jyoti Singh questioned the petitioner on how an election petition was maintainable on the problem.
“How is it maintainable as an election petition? You go and file a PIL,” the courtroom stated.
The petitioner stated A was luring voters with a false announcement as Delhi authorities had already denied having such a scheme.
The courtroom requested petitioner one Vijay Kumar to handle submissions on the maintainability of the plea and posted the listening to on January 10.
Advocate Shiv Shankar Parashar, the petitioner’s counsel, stated Kumar had filed a criticism with the Election Fee of India over the alleged false announcement by the ruling celebration in Delhi to pay a ₹2,100 month-to-month stipend to ladies having Delhi voter IDs.
Claiming no motion was taken, he urged the courtroom to direct the election fee to expeditiously eliminate his criticism filed on January 3.
The plea additionally sought a route to the chief electoral officer to cease additional filling of types associated to the scheme by A employees.
The lawyer stated ladies voters of Delhi could be affected if the criticism was not determined.
On December 12, 2024, A supremo Arvind Kejriwal introduced the roll out of the Delhi authorities’s scheme and promised to boost the month-to-month help from ₹1,000 to ₹2,100 if the celebration returned to energy.
On December 25, nonetheless, Delhi authorities’s Girls and Little one Growth and Well being departments issued public notices, distancing themselves from the scheme in addition to the promise of free therapy for the aged, triggering a contemporary row forward of the meeting polls.
The 2 departments cautioned folks towards offering private particulars to anybody on the pretext of registering for the what they termed as “non-existent” schemes and stated any non-public particular person or political celebration accumulating such bodily types or info was “fraudulent and with none authority”.
Delhi goes to polls on February 5 with counting scheduled on February 8.
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