In a move to add more sting to its campaign for the upcoming Delhi assembly elections, the party’s state unit is understood to have written to its national leadership to consider implementing schemes similar to the Ladli Behan and Ladki Bahin scheme in Madhya Pradesh. If Maharashtra comes to power in the capital.
During the budget earlier this year, the AAP also announced a monthly payment of Rs 1,000 to eligible women beneficiaries in the capital as a key election promise.
Sources said that this suggestion was part of the proceedings of the Organizational and Election Management Committee held last week and informed the national leadership. The BJP’s manifesto, sources added, was likely to be announced in late December or early January.
“Implementation of schemes like the Ladli Bahin and Ladki Bahin schemes is one of the important suggestions received by the party’s state unit regarding its manifesto for the Delhi Assembly elections,” said a senior BJP leader.
“Several other suggestions, which will be followed by announcements, have been communicated to the national leadership for its progress; The final decision will come in a few days,’ said the leader.
The Delhi government first announced its Mahila Samman Rashi scheme in its 2024-25 budget in March, allocating Rs 2,000 crore out of its Rs 76,000 crore budget for it. At the time, leaders said the first payments under the scheme would be made in September or October. Arvind Kejriwal, the then Chief Minister of Delhi, had arrested this plan. The draft of the plan has been prepared but it is yet to be approved by the Council of Ministers.
The Ladki Bahin Yojana is said to have contributed significantly to the BJP-NCP-Shiv Sena Mahayuti bloc’s assembly win in Maharashtra, the second consecutive term of the JMM-led Bharat Bloc government, largely attributed to the implementation of the Maiya Samman Yojana. Jharkhand.
Awaiting a nod in this regard from its national headquarters, the Delhi BJP has taken on the AAP for what the opposition party has accused of a “disinformation campaign” around it, seeking to end current subsidies in government departments.
South Delhi BJP MP and convenor of the party’s ‘sankalp patra’ or manifesto committee, Ramveer Singh Bidhuri, on Monday announced that if the BJP forms the government in Delhi, the AAP will continue to subsidize the Delhi government on electricity, water and public transport. areas.
Bidhuri suggested that a potential BJP government in Delhi should continue “all social schemes, electricity-water subsidies, and transport concessions in Delhi” at the suggestion of Delhi BJP president Virendra Sachdeva. public”.
“While the party has already announced its commitment to implement the Ayushman Bharat scheme, which the Aam Aadmi Party has stalled for years, if it forms a BJP government, the BJP’s women-centric plan could be higher. Amount than AAP’s Rs 1,000 crore,” another leader said.
“It is now in the domain of the national leadership whether to assess the amount of monthly gratuity payments and announce the implementation of such a scheme,” the leader added.