NEW DELHI: With Assembly polls coming closer, AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday announced the Mukhya Mantri Mahila Samman Yojana and promised to raise the monthly aid from Rs 1,000 to Rs 2,100 if his AAP voted to power.
He, however, said the money would be credited into beneficiaries’ accounts only after elections as the dates are likely to be announced soon.
However, CM Atishi said if the Model Code of Conduct comes into force after January 13, the first installment will be transferred into the bank accounts of eligible women before elections.
The registration for the Mukhya Mantri Mahila Samman Yojana, which was announced during the Budget 2024-25 by then finance minister and now CM Atishi, will begin from Friday, he said. The scheme originally proposed to give Rs 1,000 per month to all eligible women aged above the age of 18 years. “The registration for the scheme will start tomorrow. It will be for Rs 2,100,” Kejriwal said.
“While the BJP calls it revdis, I see it as a step towards strengthening our society. The BJP asks from where the money will come. But I said that we will give free electricity, and we did it,” Kejriwal added.
The AAP leader urged women to support his party in the elections. “If all women work together, we will secure more than 60 seats,” he said.
The BJP, however, attacked Kejriwal, asking why the AAP government did not implement such a scheme in Punjab despite making a similar announcement before the 2022 elections in the state.
“Arvind Kejriwal is only repeating his fake promise. Even during the Lok Sabha polls, they got women to fill up forms but paid nothing to them,” Delhi BJP president Virendra Sachdeva said.