MP includes unmarried women above 21 years of age in 'Ladli Behna Yojana'
Jabalpur (PTI): Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Friday announced that unmarried women above 21 years of age will get Rs 1,250 per month as aid under his government's flagship Ladli Behna Yojana.
He was addressing a rally in Ranji area here as part of the BJP's Jan Ashirwad Yatra', a mass-contact programme. Assembly polls are due in MP by the end of the year.
"Unmarried women above the age of 21 will get the benefit of Ladli Behna Yojana," he said, adding the aid under the scheme, which benefits around 1.32 crore women, will be gradually increased to Rs 3,000 per month.
Earlier, addressing a rally in Jabalpur West, Chouhan said women are going to get 33 per cent reservation in Lok Sabha and assembly under the women's reservation bill passed by Parliament.
He said there is already a 33 per cent reservation for women in local bodies in the state.
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Congress using hijab issue to pacify minority anger, alleges Karnataka LoP R Ashoka
Bengaluru: Leader of Opposition in the Assembly R. Ashoka has accused the Congress government of using the hijab issue to placate what he described as discontent among minority voters after the Davanagere by-election.
In a post on X on Wednesday, Ashoka alleged that the state government, instead of addressing issues such as price rise, corruption, farmers’ distress and law and order, was attempting to retain its minority vote base by reviving the hijab issue.
Referring to the 2022 dress code introduced by the BJP government, which prohibited hijab in schools and colleges, Ashoka said the Karnataka High Court had upheld the policy and emphasised the importance of discipline in educational institutions.
He questioned the Congress government’s move to revisit the issue and asked whether setting aside the court-backed policy to benefit one community could be described as secularism.
Ashoka further alleged that while the government was willing to permit hijab, it continued to prohibit saffron shawls.
He accused the government of dividing students on religious lines rather than treating schools and colleges as spaces of equality.
Drawing a comparison with Mamata Banerjee’s government in West Bengal, Ashoka claimed that excessive appeasement politics had harmed the state and warned that the Congress in Karnataka could face a similar political response.
He said voters in Karnataka would teach the Congress a lesson for what he termed “vote-bank politics” and for compromising constitutional and judicial principles.
