With money doles to girls returning spectacular outcomes on the hustings for incumbent governments in Maharashtra and Jharkhand lately, the NDA authorities in Bihar is below strain to announce such a scheme with months to go for Meeting polls within the state.
Sources throughout the NDA advised The Indian Specific that although Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar shouldn’t be in favour of money handouts, there’s a critical dialogue throughout the alliance to announce such a scheme.
“There’s a dialogue throughout the social gathering, the alliance and the federal government about it. Though this doesn’t match with Nitish ji’s thought of welfare politics, given how well-liked these schemes have turn into and the way they’ve helped incumbent governments return to energy, it might must be accomplished,” a senior JD(U) chief advised The Indian Specific.
Moreover, the JD(U) is below strain from the Opposition RJD, which has already introduced the Mai Bahin Maan Yojana, below which it has promised to offer a month-to-month help of Rs 2,500 to girls from poor households if it involves energy in Bihar.
The JD(U)’s ballot pitch too is concentrated on girls voters who it believes will propel Nitish again to energy in 2025. Sounding the ballot bugle on December 22, one of many first yatras it launched was the Nari Shakti Rath Yatra which is traversing by way of all districts of the state, speaking about all the federal government schemes launched for the welfare of ladies and the way they’ll avail the advantages.
Even the CM’s Pragati Yatra, which started on December 23, was earlier presupposed to be named “Mahila Samvad Yatra”. But, the main focus of the Pragati Yatra is unmistakably girls. Starting his yatra from Valmiki Nagar in West Champaran, the primary group that the CM met was girls. Since then, each district Nitish has been visiting, sources mentioned, he has been assembly girls and asking them whether or not they’re availing authorities advantages and asking them what extra the federal government can do.
The Nari Shakti Rath Yatra was launched from Patna by JD(U) Nationwide Working President Sanjay Kumar Jha and state President Umesh Singh. Jha, throughout the launch, mentioned the yatra was aimed toward “realising the goals of Bihar’s moms, sisters and daughters” and “to make them conscious of their rights”.
On the identical day, Jha and Singh additionally launched the Karpoori Rath Yatra, named after former Bihar CM Karpoori Thakur, who belonged to the Extraordinarily Backward Lessons (EBC) and was a pioneer of reservations. The yatra underlines the JD(U)’s give attention to EBCs, a constituency that Nitish has nurtured rigorously and has loved its backing too.
“Bridging the hole that had existed for hundreds of years between the elite and the uncared for lessons of the society was a giant problem for Nitish Kumar. However with nice willpower, he turned it into a chance launching programmes targeted on girls, OBCs, EBCs, Dalits, Mahadalits and Adivasis,” JD(U) Nationwide Spokesperson Rajiv Ranjan Prasad advised the Indian Specific.
He mentioned the elevated illustration of ladies and EBCs in jobs, panchayats and grassroots authorities models was proof that the folks had benefited from the schemes.
“All these schemes had been improved upon additional by getting public suggestions by way of yatras previously. By means of the continued yatras, the federal government desires to establish whether or not persons are getting the advantages of the schemes and primarily based on the suggestions, large choices will likely be taken,” Prasad mentioned.
Notably, Nitish was among the many first politicians within the nation to establish girls as a separate constituency. In his very first time period as CM in Bihar, he launched varied women-centric schemes like distribution of college uniforms to cycles amongst school-going ladies. There may be additionally a 50% reservation for ladies in panchayats in Bihar whereas the state claims to have the very best illustration of ladies (in share phrases) within the nation in its police drive.
Amid the Structure pitch of the Opposition, the social gathering has additionally launched Ambedkar Rath Yatra which can traverse by way of all districts and set up dialogue with Dalits. An Alpsankhyak Rath Yatra is on the transfer to interact with Muslims within the state. The yatras will proceed for 2 months, sources mentioned.
“Within the run as much as Lok Sabha polls, we had launched the Bhim Samvad and Karpoori Charcha concentrating on Dalits and EBCs. It gave us optimistic outcomes. The NDA’s efficiency in Bihar was significantly better than in UP. The Structure subject didn’t dent us right here. We purpose to equally counter the Opposition’s misinformation by way of our yatras this time,” JD(U) state unit vice-president Ravindra Prasad Singh, who’s coordinating the assorted yatras, mentioned.
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