Mumbai: With a number of legislators elevating questions and making feedback concerning the Mahayuti authorities’s flagship Ladki Bahin scheme in the course of the ongoing Winter Session of the Maharashtra Meeting, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis Tuesday appeared visibly irked and appealed to MLAs to not hyperlink the scheme to each query.

Amongst those that drew his ire was his aide, BJP MLA Abhimanyu Pawar, a former private assistant to Fadnavis who now represents the Ausa constituency in Latur district.

Pawar, a two-term MLA, referred to the scheme and made a passing remark whereas elevating a query concerning alleged unlawful liquor distribution.

“This is a matter for each rural MLA, not simply me. Our sisters preserve asking us. We point out Ladki Bahin after they increase grievances, lots of which relate to unlawful liquor,” MLA Pawar stated, including that he had raised the difficulty as a Calling Consideration Movement within the earlier meeting session as nicely.

Individually, Congress MLA Jyoti Gaikwad additionally raised the federal government’s and Fadnavis’s dedication to the scheme whereas talking about girls’s security within the meeting.

Fadnavis stated, “It’s not proper to hyperlink every part to the scheme. It’s true that the safety of our sisters is vital, however that doesn’t imply the Ladki Bahin yojana is flawed, that don’t give that, however give this, don’t make such comparisons between the 2 issues. Round 2.5 crore girls within the state have accepted the scheme, it’s important for them and we are going to proceed it. And we may even do as a lot as potential for ladies’s security.”

The scheme, formally ‘Mukhyamantri Majhi Ladki Bahin Yojana’, was launched by the primary Mahayuti authorities in July final yr forward of the meeting elections.  Beneath the scheme, each eligible lady, aged between 21–65 years with an annual earnings of lower than Rs. 2.5 lakh, will obtain a month-to-month monetary support of Rs 1,500. In its manifesto, the Mahayuti events—BJP, Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena and the Ajit Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Social gathering (NCP)—had promised to lift the quantity to Rs 2,500 per thirty days if they’re elected again to energy. Nonetheless, the second Mahayuti authorities underneath Fadnavis is but to lift the quantity.

The scheme has been a political flashpoint, with all of the three Mahayuti events initially making an attempt to take credit score for it, adopted by voices of scepticism from members of all events concerning the monetary pressure it’s placing on the state’s price range. In the meantime, the Opposition events have been focusing on the federal government for being unable to extend the payout underneath the scheme but as promised.

(Edited by Shashank Kishan)

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