An Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) councillor criticized the Delhi government’s ‘Mukhya Mantri Mahila Samman Yojana’ on Wednesday, which proposes increasing financial aid from ₹1,000 to ₹2,100. Ravindra Solanki, an AAP councillor, stated that Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal should have honored the original promise of the ₹1,000 allowance before introducing a new scheme.
“A lot of women come to the office asking about the ₹1,000 allowance. So far, no ₹1,000 allowance has been given, and now they are queuing up for the ₹2,100 proposed allowance. We want to tell Kejriwal ji that he should have first fulfilled the promise of the ₹1,000 allowance before announcing another scheme,” Solanki was quoted by ANI as saying.
The public no longer trusts us, and we have no answers for them,” he added.
The AAP councillor’s remarks came after the Delhi government’s Women and Child Development and Health departments issued public notices on Wednesday, distancing themselves from the ruling AAP’s pledged schemes to provide ₹2,100 to women and free treatment for the elderly.
“It is emphasized that since no such scheme is in existence, the question of acceptance of the form/application for registration under this non-existent scheme does not arise. Any private person/political party who is collecting forms/applications or collecting information from applicants in the name of this scheme is committing fraud and has no authority,” the women and child development department said in its notice.
Kejriwal accused the BJP of being unsettled by the two schemes and suggested that Chief Minister Atishi might be arrested in a “fabricated” case in the near future.
“They are completely rattled with Mahila Samman Yojna and Sanjeevani Yojna. They have hatched a plan to come up with a fake case and arrest Chief Minister Atishi in the next few days,” he said on X.
