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Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis connected Tuesday warned his MLA and others from the Opposition for repeatedly mentioning the Mukhyamantri Majhi Ladki Bahin strategy portion raising “unrelated questions” during the Question Hour successful the Assembly.
Mr. Fadnavis got triggered erstwhile his erstwhile idiosyncratic adjunct and Ausa (Latur) BJP legislator, Abhimanyu Dattatray Pawar, said, “We telephone them Ladki Bahin, but their biggest symptom is amerciable liquor. We support mentioning Ladki Bahin erstwhile sisters successful agrarian areas rise their grievances related to amerciable liquor.”
In response, Mr. Fadnavis warned, “No request to notation Ladki Bahin successful everything, different you volition person to beryllium astatine home. The strategy volition spell on, and women volition proceed to person a monthly instalment. Do not comparison with different schemes.”
Ladki Bahin was introduced successful July 2024, up of the State Assembly election, and has been surrounded by controversies. Under the scheme, women aged 21 to 65 with an income beneath ₹2.5 lakh person a monthly instalment of ₹1,500, which Mahayuti promised to rise to ₹2,500 per period if voted to power.
Mr. Pawar reiterated that the aforesaid contented had been raised successful the erstwhile league and that, contempt directions to the Excise and Food Departments, “nothing important has been done”.
He demanded that, nether the Maharashtra Prohibition Act of 1949, the punishment for amerciable and counterfeit liquor income beryllium accrued to much than 7 years, and the good from ₹50,000 to ₹ 5 lakh.
Women safety
Addressing the Assembly, Congress MLA Jyoti Gaikwad asked whether the government’s ₹1,500 monthly assistance nether the Ladki Bahin strategy is much important than women’s safety. “What volition you bash to amended the information and information of women,” she asked.
To this, Mr. Fadnavis replied, “It is not indispensable to nexus Ladki Bahin with everything. Security and information are important, but you cannot comparison them with a scheme. The 2.5 crores women successful the State person accepted the scheme, volition proceed it, and enactment connected information issues.”
