Reportedly the Bharatiya Janata Party’s manifesto for the madhya pradesh assembly polls does not have a mention of increasing the monthly financial aid under the Ladli Bahna Yojana to Rs 3,000, while many of the promises have been copied from the Congress’ announcements, the opposition party’s state unit chief kamal nath said on Saturday.
The bjp released its 96-page manifesto or ‘sankalp patra’ during the day, which promised, among other things, cooking gas cylinder at Rs 450 for beneficiaries of the Ladli Behna and Ujjwala’ schemes and free education upto the post-graduation level for girls from poor families. Higher minimum support price (MSP) for wheat and paddy, houses for the beneficiaries of Ladli Behna scheme and free education upto Class 12 for poor students were among other salient promises.
Prime minister Narendra Modi is not contesting or campaigning to become the chief minister of madhya pradesh while the bjp is “shy and hesitant” to name shivraj singh chouhan as its cm face, former chief minister and congress leader kamal nath has told CNN-News18 in an interview. With less than a week to go for polls in the state, Nath told in Chhindwara on friday that the main issues in the mp elections were “corruption, unemployment and farmer issues” and said his name as the next chief minister of congress “will be decided upon by the people of Madhya Pradesh”.
The state congress chief also said every single person in the state was “either a victim or a witness to corruption” under the Chouhan regime. He questioned why Chouhan was reminded of ‘Ladli Behanas’ only five months before the elections and not during the 18 years in power, referring to the chief minister’s scheme of Rs 1,250 per month for women.
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