Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday stated one can’t obtain the dream of ‘Viksit Bharat’ by sidelining the ladies inhabitants and accused the Congress of doing little for ladies empowerment.
“Leaving half the inhabitants behind, we can’t obtain the dream of Viksit Bharat. Congress used to talk about ‘nari shakti’, however they didn’t take the mandatory steps for ladies empowerment. They used to say ladies’s illustration in Parliament, state assemblies, and different native our bodies ought to improve however they couldn’t obtain it. For the primary time in India’s Parliament, by passing the Nari Vandan Adhiniyam Invoice, the BJP authorities has executed the work to offer 33% illustration to ladies within the Parliament and state assemblies,” stated Singh who was campaigning for BJP’s Pune Cantonment candidate and sitting MLA Sunil Kamble at Golibar Maidan in Pune on Saturday.
Kamble is contesting towards Congress’s Ramesh Bagwe, whom the previous had defeated within the 2019 polls by a margin of 5,000 votes.
Speaking concerning the Mahayuti authorities’s Laadki Bahin scheme, Singh stated, “It isn’t a small factor to deposit Rs 1,500 into the accounts of girls whose revenue is lower than Rs 2.5 lakh. The Mahayuti authorities has executed this and so far as I do know, we now have declared in our manifesto that we are going to improve it to Rs 2,100.”
Singh additionally launched an assault on Congress chief and Chief of Opposition within the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi.
“Maharashtra is the janmsthal (bithplace) and karmsthal (office) of Babasaheb Ambedkar… Rahul Gandhi goes round holding a crimson e-book saying that it’s the Structure which Ambedkar framed. Who is aware of what the crimson e-book truly is…Congress by no means revered Ambedkar, he was preventing the elections from right here (Maharashtra) and the Congress defeated him in an organised approach…Why couldn’t the Congress give Ambedkar a Bharat Ratna? It was given to many individuals. Simply because he was from a Scheduled Caste? If anybody, it’s Narendra Modi who bestowed the Bharat Ratna on Babasaheb Ambedkar,” stated the Union Minister.
Including that the Ayushman Bharat scheme had been expanded to all folks above the age of 70, Singh stated folks ought to encourage their elders to register for the scheme in order that they will get insurance coverage protection of Rs 5 lakh per household. He additionally addressed Muslims and stated, “Kaash dono desh (India and Pakistan) ek rahe hote (We want each the international locations would have been one). I need to say to brothers from the minority neighborhood, they need to additionally suppose. One is not going to discover a nation like India even in case you search for it. The folks right here have huge hearts.”
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