Congress vows to provide INR 2,500/month to women in Delhi if voted to power
This story was originally published at 14:00 IST on 6 January 2025
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NEW DELHI – Ahead of the Assembly elections in Delhi, likely to be held in February, the Congress party on Monday announced 'Pyari Didi' scheme, under which it promised to provide financial assistance of INR 2,500 per month to women if elected to power.
Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister and senior Congress leader D.K. Shivakumar, who announced the scheme at a press conference here, assured that the scheme will be implemented immediately once the Congress party forms the government in the national capital. "Today, I am here to launch the 'Pyari Didi' scheme. I'm confident that the Congress will form the government in Delhi, and we will provide INR 2,500 to women, and it will be decided in the very first meeting of cabinet - on the same model that we implemented in Karnataka," Kumar said.
After being in power for 15 consecutive years till 2013, the Grand Old Party has been struggling to regain its hold on the national capital. It failed to secure a single seat in the 2015 and 2020 Assembly elections due to the Aam Aadmi Party's dominance in the national capital. The Delhi elections will see a three-way contest between the Congress, the AAP and the Bharatiya Janata Party. While the Congress and AAP are part of the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance – an opposition bloc, the two parties have been contesting against each other in Delhi. The rift between the two parties escalated recently after the AAP warned that it would speak to other INDIA constituents to remove the Congress from the bloc. The AAP has accused the Delhi leadership of the Congress of acting at the behest of the BJP.
The AAP and the BJP have kicked off their campaigns for elections to the 70-member Delhi assembly. Former Delhi chief minister and AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal has announced several welfare schemes for senior citizens, backward classes, women and priests as the party seeks a third term in Delhi.
Campaigning for the BJP, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday had inaugurated several infrastructure projects in the national capital and also launched an attack on the AAP government for allegedly pushing Delhi into a "disaster."
The Election Commission of India is yet to announce dates for the Delhi Assembly elections. The previous Assembly election in the national capital was held on Feb. 8, 2020. The AAP had won 62 seats and the BJP got eight. End
Reported by Kuldeep Singh
Edited by Tanima Banerjee
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