Forward of the Karnataka meeting elections this 12 months, All India Congress Committee (AICC) common secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Monday introduced the Gruha Lakshmi scheme, promising 2,000 a month to women-led households if voted to energy within the state.
Addressing a ‘Na Nayaki’ (I’m a lady chief) conference for girls within the metropolis, the Congress chief stated the direct profit scheme would assist 150 million housewives.
The Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) stated the scheme is an try of the celebration to share the “burden of the exorbitant LPG costs and the expensive day by day bills” {that a} lady has to bear”.
“Immediately, Congress ensures that each lady head of the family will get ₹2,000 per thirty days as soon as we come to energy. The quantity will straight be credited to the accounts of the lady head of the household. This earnings for each lady will assist them run their family by overcoming the burden of worth rise and enhance in LPG costs. Greater than 1.5 crore ladies will profit from this scheme,” she stated.
Throughout the occasion, KPCC president DK Shivakumar and Opposition chief Siddaramaiah handed over a symbolic cheque to Priyanka, pledging their dedication to implement the ‘Gruha Lakshmi’ scheme.
The announcement got here inside days of the celebration promising to supply 200 items of free electrical energy each month to all households within the state beneath the Gruha Jyothi Yojane if voted to energy. The state meeting elections are due by Could, and Karnataka has 255 million ladies voters out of the entire 515 million.
“The Congress desires each lady of the State to be empowered and able to standing on her personal ft and in addition caring for her kids. The celebration desires to supply monetary independence to every lady of Karnataka,” the celebration stated in a press release.
Priyanka stated a separate manifesto for girls can be launched and stated “corruption is rampant within the Bharatiya Janata Social gathering (BJP)-ruled state”.
“I need to ask a query. Below the BJP authorities, has your life turn out to be higher? Did something change in your life? Have a look at the previous few years and consider your life earlier than voting. Have you ever acquired the job? Have costs gone down? Has there been something constructive? No, proper? Then it’s a easy reply.”
“I’ve been instructed that state of affairs in Karnataka may be very dangerous. ₹1.5 lakh crore cash has been misplaced by means of corruption. PSI rip-off is shameful, you educate your kids, and that is what you get from politicians in energy,” she added.
In her deal with, Priyanka raised the problem of ladies’s empowerment and talked about “two very robust ladies” who raised her.
“I deeply consider that it’s ladies who uphold our tradition and custom. It’s ladies who carry change. It’s ladies who make our society what it’s,” she asserted.
“I used to be introduced up by two very courageous and robust ladies. The primary was my grandmother Indira ji. I noticed her… I used to be solely eight years outdated when she misplaced her son. Her son was solely 33 years outdated,” Priyanka stated, recalling the loss of life of her uncle Sanjay Gandhi.
“However the subsequent day, she went to serve her nation. That was the sense of responsibility she had. That was her interior Shakti that she continued to serve the nation until she died.”
“I used to be introduced up by my mom, Sonia Gandhi. At age 21, she fell in love with my father Rajiv. She got here from Italy to India. She struggled to be taught the traditions. She learnt the methods of India. She understood and imbibed every little thing from Indira ji. At 44, she misplaced her husband, Rajiv Gandhi,” she stated.
“Regardless that she disliked politics, she took the trail of service to the nation and continues to serve… now that she is 76,” he added.
In the meantime, a day earlier than the Congress rally for girls, chief minister Basvaraj Bommai stated that he would current a women-centric and pro-people Finances for 2023-24 on February 17, which is able to, amongst different issues, have the scheme to help ladies to handle bills of their households.
On Monday, Bommai ridiculed Priyanka Gandhi Vadra’s occasion within the metropolis, saying the Congress common secretary has reached a stage the place she has to announce that she is a frontrunner.
The chief minister stated since no ladies have been rallying behind her, she herself needed to announce “Na Nayaki”, including the ladies of Karnataka will not be prepared to simply accept her name.
“Let her (Priyanka) come. Many individuals come to Bengaluru. I don’t have an objection. Could the occasion happen correctly, however what I’m failing to know is the title of the programme Na Nayaki,” Bommai stated.
“Immediately, folks should say Na Nayaki by conserving Priyanka Gandhi’s photograph. Such a state of affairs has risen the place Priyanka Gandhi has to announce herself as a lady chief,” Bommai added.