BHOPAL: Forward of the Meeting polls in Madhya Pradesh, the primary contestants — the Bharatiya Janata Occasion (BJP) and the Congress — are testing the bounds of freebies politics. Whereas the ruling BJP led by Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan is saying one after one other freebies or money incentive schemes within the state to lure voters, the Congress too is making varied profitable guarantees to win the polls.
State Congress led by Kamal Nath has hit the electoral battle in opposition to the BJP with ‘5 ensures’ — money switch for girls (Rs 1,500 month-to-month), LPG cylinders at Rs 500 every, implementation of the previous pension scheme, subsidised electrical energy and farm loans waiver.
The BJP, which has excessive hopes from its ‘Ladli Behna Yojana’ — a women-centric money incentive scheme of offering Rs 1000 each month introduced a number of months forward of the meeting polls, has come out with a suggestion to offer LPG cylinders at Rs 450 together with subsidised electrical energy.
Simply three months after the announcement of the Ladli Behna Yojana, Chief Minister Chouhan has now introduced to extend the incentives paid beneath the scheme from Rs 1,000 to Rs 1,250 in October.
Addressing a mammoth gathering of girls from throughout state final week in Bhopal, Chouhan stated: “Ladies will get cooking fuel at Rs 450 within the holy month of Sawan”, including that “from October, 1.25 crore ladies will get Rs 1,250 (beneath Ladli Behna Yojana) and the quantity will steadily be hiked to Rs 3,000 per 30 days in order that the goal of uplifting the financial and social situation of girls is fulfilled”.
The Congress with its 5 ‘vachans’ (guarantees) is betting on examined schemes that it promised and carried out after coming to energy in Karnataka and Himachal Pradesh. Madhya Pradesh at present has a pension legal responsibility of Rs 23,011 crore, which in accordance with a analysis report is anticipated to achieve Rs 69,062 crore by 2030-31.
Responding to the BJP authorities’s announcement of offering Rs.1,000 to the ladies, Kamal Nath stated: “I’m joyful that the BJP has began giving money incentives to the ladies after the Congress pressured them to take action. However, why do they do all this stuff when the elections method? Why have been these schemes not carried out within the final 18 years?”
Enterprise consultants, citing varied studies, underlined that the state’s dedicated expenditure, together with bills on cost of salaries, pensions, and curiosity, jumped from 32 per cent of income receipts to 42 per cent throughout 2016-17 and 2021-22.
“BJP and the Congress are competing with one another to woo the voters in Madhya Pradesh, although the state’s monetary situation at current shouldn’t be that effectively to allow implementation of all these schemes. Each events have promised schemes totalling price 1000’s of crores of rupees they usually do not look carried out with the promising spree but. The ‘revdi tradition’ within the state is in full play,” stated a senior journalist.
He added that the state is already beneath a debt burden of Rs 3.5 lakh crore with many freebies schemes being carried out with a watch on the upcoming elections.