00:00We have some more breaking news that's coming in.
00:02Aam Aadmi Party has slammed the BJP over Mahila Samman scheme.
00:05The Delhi leader of opposition, Ateeshi, has attacked the BJP over the scheme.
00:11Ateeshi has said that the BJP scheme was a jhumla.
00:14Ateeshi says that the Prime Minister promised Rs. 2,500 for Delhi women.
00:18Modi's guarantee is in fact a jhumla is what Ateeshi has said.
00:25Let's listen in to what a Delhi leader of opposition has said.
00:55My colleague Aman Bhardwaj joins me on the phone line with more details.
01:20What we're seeing here is politics that's breaking out over the entire issue.
01:24Aam Aadmi Party is now saying that the Modi government has failed to deliver on its poll
01:28promise of Rs. 2,500 monthly financial aid to the women of Delhi.
01:33What more can you tell us about this?
01:34Well, Chitna, this is very much on the expected lines because yesterday when the announcement
01:41was made by the BJP government in Delhi that Mahila Samriti Yojana has been passed by the
01:46cabinet, the Aam Aadmi Party's top leadership was harping on the fact that the poll promise
01:53by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi of the BJP was that money will be credited into accounts
01:58of women of Delhi on March 8th.
02:01And in fact, how Prime Minister had told women voters of Delhi to connect their mobile numbers
02:08to the account so that they get that credit message onto their mobile numbers.
02:12And this was the issue that was being discussed within the Aam Aadmi Party leadership in order
02:19to define their line to attack the BJP.
02:22And now you have the leader of opposition, R.P.
02:24Shree, taking that very specific line, attacking the BJP on the specifics of it.
02:32That is, the money has not been credited into accounts of women of Delhi.
02:37Number one, the first tranche has not been given out by the BJP-led Delhi government.
02:43And along with this, they are also trying to send across a message to the residents
02:49of the national capital as to how even the criteria as to who will be the beneficiaries
02:54of the Mahila Samriddhi Yojana has not been given out by the cabinet so far, or it was
03:00not very specifically cleared in that cabinet note.
03:03And a committee has been formed in order to carve out those lines and to tell out as to
03:11what will be the policy, who will be included, who will be excluded from this financial aid
03:17that is being formulated by the Delhi government as it was promised by BJP in the run-up of
03:23the Delhi Assembly polls.
03:24And obviously, the money that has been cleared is Rs. 2,500 for the beneficiaries each month
03:30in Delhi.
03:31But who will get it?
03:32That remains a question.
03:34This is what the stance of the Aam Aadmi Party is.
03:36But having said that, we'll have to wait for the eventual cabinet note to be made public
03:42in order to understand what is the mandate of that committee and whether certain criteria
03:47has been already decided by the government or whether it is for the core member committee
03:52empowered ministers who will decide that.
03:54Back to you.
03:55Absolutely, Amit.
03:55Thank you for bringing us those details on that story.
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