Congress Announces LPG At Rs 500 & Rs. 1,500 Monthly Aid for Women as It Eyes MP Assembly Polls

GG News Bureau

Bhopal, 8th May. With an eye on the Madhya Pradesh Assembly elections this year, Congress leader Kamal Nath declared on Monday that if the party wins power in the state, it will grant a monthly aid of Rs 1,500 to women and LPG cylinders at a subsidised price to each household.

Kamal Nath stated that the party will be providing money to women through the Nari Samman Yojana, which is consistent with the party’s poll promise in Karnataka, where the Congress has pledged to provide Rs 2,000 monthly support to the woman head of every family in its manifesto.

Nath said, “Inflation is high and the women are most affected by it. We have decided to give Rs 1,500 per month under Nari Samman Yojana to them for their self-reliance and LPG cylinder at Rs 500 when our government is formed in the state.”

Nath stated that the scheme would be launched on May 9 with the goal of providing Rs 1,500 to women and Rs 500 to each household.

 “We will try to give benefits to as many women as possible. All our sisters are most affected by inflation. There are atrocities against women in the state. Today Madhya Pradesh is number one in women atrocities,” Nath alleged.

The former chief minister also went after CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan, alleging that the BJP leader did not do enough for women during his tenure and has now launched a scheme to entice them.

“CM Chouhan did not think about women for the last 18 years, but when the elections are around the corner, he came to give a temptation. The LPG cylinder which used to be of Rs 400-500 is now of Rs 1,100. On one hand, you (CM Chouhan) are talking about giving Rs 1,000 to women and on the other hand, the Bharatiya Janata Party is imposing inflation for them,” he said.

When asked if the public will bear the burden of such a scheme (Nari Samman Yojana) in debt-ridden Madhya Pradesh, Nath stated that the party has made calculations prior to the scheme’s rollout.

“The BJP has taken a loan of about Rs 3.5 lakh crore. What was the use of this loan? Did he (CM Chouhan) use the money for our ASHAs, our contract teachers and our guest teachers? Or used it to give big contracts, so that their commission will be generated. This is not our point of view, we have announced this after doing a full calculation. We will be able to give it to them, and we have decided how our cash flow will be made,” he said.

Nath said that the people of Madhya Pradesh remember the promises Congress made earlier which the party “started to fulfil” when it was in government for nearly 15 months before it fell in March 2020.

“The people of Madhya Pradesh know the promise we had made. In our 15 months of government, we started to fulfil them. We waived the loan of 27 lakh farmers in the first instalment. We implemented Rs 100 for 100 units of electricity and many other things were done, there is no need to go into it. I have full faith in the people of Madhya Pradesh. The people of the state are my witnesses,” former CM claimed.

State Home Minister Narottam Mishra, on the other hand, slammed the Congress’ Nari Samman Yojana, claiming that the party will defraud the state’s women. “Earlier, they (Congress) cheated the farmers, and now they are going to cheat the women,” he remarked.