‘’Mai Bahan Maan Yojana’ Sounds Like Abuse’: Bihar Minister Sparks Row, RJD Hits Again – News18

Final Up to date:December 20, 2024, 23:54 IST

RJD strongly condemned minister Sumit Singh’s assertion and stated it reveals their mentality.

Bihar minister Sumit Singh on Friday stoked an argument on commenting on “Mai, Bahan Maan Yojana”, introduced by Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Tejashwi Yadav to offer eligible girls Rs 2,500 each month, that it feels like an abuse (gaali).

What Sumit Singh stated?

Whereas responding to a query about RJD’s scheme forward of the Bihar meeting elections, Bihar Science and Know-how Minister stated, ” This sounds much less like a scheme and extra like an abuse. These are his concepts, and one can’t touch upon them. Simply observe the timing of his tweets and video calls—it displays his temper and mode. This scheme seems to be extra of an insult than a plan. In the event you pay attention fastidiously, it appears extra like criticism than an precise scheme. Who advises him on such concepts? And why does all this come to thoughts simply earlier than elections?”

“They (the RJD) had been in energy until final yr and he (Mr Yadav) was the deputy chief minister. He may have applied such a scheme then as effectively,” the lone Unbiased minister in Nitish Kumar cupboard stated.

RJD reacts

The RJD strongly condemned Singh’s assertion and stated it reveals their mentality.

“Those that suppose the ‘Maai Bahan Samman Yojana’ feels like an abuse… hate not solely the moms, sisters and Bahujan inhabitants of Bihar but in addition the soil, language, identification and dialect of the state,” the celebration stated in a publish on X.

What’s ‘Mai Bahan Samman Yojana’?

In a bid to woo girls vote financial institution, former state deputy minister Tejashwi Yadav has introduced ‘Mai Bahan Samman Yojana’. He introduced that if voted to energy, his authorities will give Rs 2,500 monthly to the “economically deprived and disadvantaged” girls within the state below the MBMY scheme.

“If our authorities is fashioned within the state, we are going to begin the ‘Maai Behan Maan Yojana’… Underneath the Maai Behan Maan Yojana, we are going to give Rs 2500 on to the accounts of our economically weak moms and sisters. As quickly as the federal government is fashioned, we are going to begin this scheme inside a month,” Tejashwi advised a gathering in Darbhanga final week.

Sharing the small print of the scheme on X, Tejashwi stated that by way of this scheme, the celebration needs to empower each girl in Bihar and added that when girls get empowered, “the household and society routinely change into stronger.”

The scheme is much like the Ladli Behen yojana introduced by the Madhya Pradesh authorities final yr, which performed a key function within the BJP remaining in energy within the state. Related schemes are additionally seen to have powered the victories of the ruling coalitions in Maharashtra (‘Ladki Bahin’) and Jharkhand (‘Maiyya Samman’) earlier this yr.

Forward of the Delhi elections, anticipated to be held in February, the AAP has additionally introduced a monetary help scheme, known as ‘Mukhyamantri Mahila Samman Yojana’, below which eligible girls will get ₹ 1,000 a month.

The meeting elections are due in Bihar within the second half of 2025, however each the INDIA alliance and NDA have already unveiled their election mechanism to woo voters.