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The Congress connected Tuesday (November 4, 2025) accused the BJP–JD(U) authorities successful Bihar of showing “consistent neglect” towards women’s safety, health, and dignity implicit the past 2 decades, portion posing a acceptable of questions to some Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.
Party president Mallikarjun Kharge slammed the NDA authorities successful Bihar implicit the information concern for women and asserted that the Mahagatbandhan (grand alliance)was afloat committed to empowering and uplifting them.
Mr. Kharge said the Congress’ promises were not conscionable to garner votes during elections oregon close earlier them, but rather, they were the aforesaid promises that the enactment would fulfil.
“The BJP-JDU authorities successful Bihar has been successful powerfulness for 20 years. If adjacent today, Modi ji has to accidental that successful Bihar ‘daughters-in-law and daughters are not safe’, past this is his ain self-admission that successful 20 years, they person not made Bihar safe!” Mr. Kharge said successful a station successful Hindi connected X.
The Congress main said the concern of women and children was highly alarming and cited the National Family Health Survey (NFHS) information to accidental 70% of children were afflicted with anaemia and 40% were victims of malnutrition. Only 11% of infants received capable nutrition arsenic per the NHFS survey, helium said.
Listing the promises made to women by the expansive alliance, Mr. Kharge said they would beryllium fixed an assistance of ₹2,500 per period if the Opposition confederation came to power. A monthly pension of ₹1,500-3,000 would beryllium fixed to the elderly, widows, and disabled, helium added.
Congress connection main Jairam Ramesh, successful a abstracted X post, said the Prime Minister “didn’t retrieve to cheque connected Bihar’s women for an full decade” and was present “staging a sham integer outreach for votes.”
He alleged that the NDA authorities had failed women connected each beforehand — from information and wellness to economical security. Mr. Ramesh claimed that crimes against women had accrued by 336% nether the BJP–JD(U) regime, with astir 20,222 incidents reported annually and 2.8 lakh women victimised truthful far. He said 1,17,947 cases remained pending successful Bihar’s courts, resulting successful a 98.2% pendency rate, “the highest successful the country.”
“Despite record-breaking crimes against women, wherefore has the BJP–JD(U) authorities failed to supply them security?” Mr. Ramesh asked.
Quoting the NFHS, the Congress person said the wellness information of women and teen girls was “alarming,” with implicit 63% of women and 65.7% of teen girls suffering from anaemia. “Despite specified a monolithic wellness situation for women, wherefore has the authorities turned a unsighted eye?” Mr. Ramesh said.
