Aam Aadmi Party's leader of the opposition, Atishi, criticises BJP's Mahila Samman scheme, claiming Prime Minister Modi's promise of Rs 2,500 for Delhi women has not been fulfilled. BJP government forms a committee to determine eligibility criteria for the scheme. AAP alleges lack of clarity on beneficiary selection and implementation timeline.
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00:00We have some more breaking news that's coming in.
00:02Aam Aadmi Party has slammed the BJP over Mahila Samman scheme.
00:05The Delhi leader of opposition, Ateeshi, has attacked the BJP over the scheme.
00:11Ateeshi has said that the BJP scheme was a jhumla.
00:14Ateeshi says that the Prime Minister promised Rs. 2,500 for Delhi women.
00:18Modi's guarantee is in fact a jhumla is what Ateeshi has said.
00:25Let's listen in to what a Delhi leader of opposition has said.
00:55My colleague Aman Bhardwaj joins me on the phone line with more details.
01:20What we're seeing here is politics that's breaking out over the entire issue.
01:24Aam Aadmi Party is now saying that the Modi government has failed to deliver on its poll
01:28promise of Rs. 2,500 monthly financial aid to the women of Delhi.
01:33What more can you tell us about this?
01:34Well, Chitna, this is very much on the expected lines because yesterday when the announcement
01:41was made by the BJP government in Delhi that Mahila Samriti Yojana has been passed by the
01:46cabinet, the Aam Aadmi Party's top leadership was harping on the fact that the poll promise
01:53by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi of the BJP was that money will be credited into accounts
01:58of women of Delhi on March 8th.
02:01And in fact, how Prime Minister had told women voters of Delhi to connect their mobile numbers
02:08to the account so that they get that credit message onto their mobile numbers.
02:12And this was the issue that was being discussed within the Aam Aadmi Party leadership in order
02:19to define their line to attack the BJP.
02:22And now you have the leader of opposition, R.P.
02:24Shree, taking that very specific line, attacking the BJP on the specifics of it.
02:32That is, the money has not been credited into accounts of women of Delhi.
02:37Number one, the first tranche has not been given out by the BJP-led Delhi government.
02:43And along with this, they are also trying to send across a message to the residents
02:49of the national capital as to how even the criteria as to who will be the beneficiaries
02:54of the Mahila Samriddhi Yojana has not been given out by the cabinet so far, or it was
03:00not very specifically cleared in that cabinet note.
03:03And a committee has been formed in order to carve out those lines and to tell out as to
03:11what will be the policy, who will be included, who will be excluded from this financial aid
03:17that is being formulated by the Delhi government as it was promised by BJP in the run-up of
03:23the Delhi Assembly polls.
03:24And obviously, the money that has been cleared is Rs. 2,500 for the beneficiaries each month
03:30in Delhi.
03:31But who will get it?
03:32That remains a question.
03:34This is what the stance of the Aam Aadmi Party is.
03:36But having said that, we'll have to wait for the eventual cabinet note to be made public
03:42in order to understand what is the mandate of that committee and whether certain criteria
03:47has been already decided by the government or whether it is for the core member committee
03:52empowered ministers who will decide that.
03:54Back to you.
03:55Absolutely, Amit.
03:55Thank you for bringing us those details on that story.