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Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta connected Wednesday said her authorities would soon present connected cardinal payment promises for women, including monthly fiscal assistance of ₹2,500 and subsidised LPG cylinders.
Addressing a ‘Jhuggi Swabhiman Sabha’ successful Wazirpur Industrial Area successful enactment of BJP campaigner from Ashok Vihar, Veena Asija, for the upcoming Municipal Corporation of Delhi bypolls, Ms. Gupta said, “We person promised ₹2,500 and subsidised state cylinders successful our manifesto. Not a azygous committedness volition stay unfulfilled.”
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the Congress criticised the authorities for failing to instrumentality the promises adjacent aft 9 months of coming to power, calling it a “betrayal” of Delhi’s women.
“As a pistillate herself, she had raised the hopes of women… that this magnitude would enactment them and easiness their struggles. But today, the women of Delhi consciousness that they person been misled,” Delhi Congress main Devendra Yadav said.
‘Need a year’s time’
Ms. Gupta blamed the hold connected the erstwhile AAP government, claiming that it near the State treasury empty. She said this slowed the rollout of respective payment schemes. “They volition travel and inquire wherefore ₹2,500 has not been paid yet. Tell them they near the coffers bare and provided nary funds for the city’s development,” she said, adding that her authorities needed astatine slightest a twelvemonth to “stabilise the system” and afloat instrumentality its plans.
The Chief Minister besides vowed imperishable lodging for slum residents. “We committedness that nary one’s location volition beryllium demolished. It is our work to supply lodging to those whose homes were demolished,” she said.
‘System reset’
Ms. Gupta emphasised that her authorities had not discontinued immoderate schemes of the erstwhile medication and alternatively launched caller initiatives. “It takes clip to reset the system. Infrastructure similar roads, streets, drains, and toilets volition beryllium built crossed Delhi. The Ayushman Bharat Yojana has to beryllium implemented, Atal canteens person to beryllium opened, and escaped powerfulness and h2o proviso are to beryllium continued,” she said.
Meanwhile, Leader of the Opposition Atishi blamed the government for “unresolved civic issues”. “People of Delhi are regretting voting for the BJP. It has failed connected each contented – water, electricity, roads, and aerial pollution. People volition respond to the part of Delhi by the BJP,” she said.
