‘’Mai Bahan Maan Yojana’ Sounds Like Abuse’: Bihar Minister Sparks Row, RJD Hits Again – News18

Final Up to date:December 20, 2024, 23:54 IST

RJD strongly condemned minister Sumit Singh’s remark and stated it presentations their mentality.

Bihar minister Sumit Singh on Friday stoked an argument on commenting on “Mai, Bahan Maan Yojana”, introduced through Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Tejashwi Yadav to present eligible ladies Rs 2,500 each month, that it feels like an abuse (gaali).

What Sumit Singh stated?

Whilst responding to a query about RJD’s scheme forward of the Bihar meeting elections, Bihar Science and Generation Minister stated, ” This sounds much less like a scheme and extra like an abuse. Those are his concepts, and one can’t touch upon them. Simply follow the timing of his tweets and video calls—it displays his temper and mode. This scheme seems to be extra of an insult than a plan. If you happen to pay attention moderately, it kind of feels extra like complaint than a real scheme. Who advises him on such concepts? And why does all this spring to mind simply prior to elections?”

“They (the RJD) have been in energy until remaining 12 months and he (Mr Yadav) was once the deputy leader minister. He will have carried out one of these scheme then as smartly,” the lone Impartial minister in Nitish Kumar cupboard stated.

RJD reacts

The RJD strongly condemned Singh’s remark and stated it presentations their mentality.

“Those that assume the ‘Maai Bahan Samman Yojana’ feels like an abuse… hate no longer simplest the moms, sisters and Bahujan inhabitants of Bihar but in addition the soil, language, id and dialect of the state,” the birthday party stated in a submit on X.

What’s ‘Mai Bahan Samman Yojana’?

In a bid to woo ladies vote financial institution, former state deputy minister Tejashwi Yadav has introduced ‘Mai Bahan Samman Yojana’. He introduced that if voted to energy, his govt will give Rs 2,500 per thirty days to the “economically deprived and disadvantaged” ladies within the state beneath the MBMY scheme.

“If our govt is shaped within the state, we can get started the ‘Maai Behan Maan Yojana’… Below the Maai Behan Maan Yojana, we can give Rs 2500 at once to the accounts of our economically susceptible moms and sisters. Once the federal government is shaped, we can get started this scheme inside of a month,” Tejashwi advised a meeting in Darbhanga remaining week.

Sharing the main points of the scheme on X, Tejashwi stated that via this scheme, the birthday party needs to empower each lady in Bihar and added that after ladies get empowered, “the circle of relatives and society mechanically turn into more potent.”

The scheme is very similar to the Ladli Behen yojana introduced through the Madhya Pradesh govt remaining 12 months, which performed a key position within the BJP final in energy within the state. Identical schemes also are noticed to have powered the victories of the ruling coalitions in Maharashtra (‘Ladki Bahin’) and Jharkhand (‘Maiyya Samman’) previous this 12 months.

Forward of the Delhi elections, anticipated to be held in February, the AAP has additionally introduced a monetary help scheme, referred to as ‘Mukhyamantri Mahila Samman Yojana’, beneath which eligible ladies gets ₹ 1,000 a month.

The meeting elections are due in Bihar in the second one part of 2025, however each the INDIA alliance and NDA have already unveiled their election mechanism to woo citizens.