Delhi Election 2025: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the Congress have launched a flurry of schemes for women in the election campaign!
But critics have questioned the viability of such promises. Doubting the effectiveness of these schemes, Jagdeep Chhokar, founder of election reform body Association for Democratic Reforms, said, "Freebies provide only short-term relief. The focus should be on teaching skills to make people self-reliant. "
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the Congress have made many promises to women in the election campaign and have given special priority to women. While the BJP has promised a subsidy of Rs 2,500 per month to women under the 'Mahila Samriddhi Yojana', Rs 21,000 as maternity benefit and Rs 500 on cooking gas cylinders, the Aam Aadmi Party has announced an assistance of Rs 2,100 per month for women and the Congress has also promised Rs 2,500 cash under the 'Pyari Didi Yojana'. Before Delhi, the impact of women-centric schemes has also been proved in Madhya Pradesh's' Ladli Behen Yojana 'and Maharashtra's' Ladki Behen Yojana '. But critics have questioned the viability of such promises. Doubting the effectiveness of these schemes, Jagdeep Chhokar, founder of election reform body Association for Democratic Reforms, said, "Freebies provide only short-term relief. The focus should be on teaching skills to make people self-reliant. "
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