Maharashtra, Jharkhand results clear any doubts for AAP: women all the way for Delhi polls

The AAP excessively seems to beryllium pursuing the aforesaid template to travel backmost to powerfulness aft 2 years of turmoil, with its apical enactment successful jail, and is acceptable to denote its ain fiscal assistance strategy for women soon. In its 2024 Budget, the Delhi authorities had announced the Mukhyamantri Mahila Samman Yojana, promising Rs 1,000 monthly deposits into the accounts of non-tax paying women betwixt the ages of 18 and 60 years.

Sources successful the Delhi medication said the authorities is keen connected ensuring that the archetypal instalment lands successful the accounts of the beneficiaries arsenic soon arsenic possible.

“The seventh revdi (a jibe astatine Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s statement of specified schemes) is coming soon,” Kejriwal said connected November 22, adding that the currency for women is an summation to the AAP’s six payment programmes successful Delhi: escaped energy up to 200 units; subsidised h2o supply, “model” authorities schools, mohalla (neighbourhood) clinics, escaped autobus question for women, and pilgrimage schemes for the elderly.

In fact, amidst the payment versus handout debate, arsenic the BJP governments excessively are caving in, the AAP is doubling down connected and reclaiming the “revdi (freebies)” culture.

On November 22, Kejriwal launched an AAP “Revdi pe charcha (Conversation connected freebies)” campaign, to straight scope retired to the residents of the nationalist capital, cautioning them that these schemes would beryllium stopped erstwhile the BJP comes to power.

On aggregate occasions, the leaders of the enactment person framed their payment measures arsenic indispensable lifelines for people, particularly women, portion informing that the BJP would get escaped of the schemes if it came to power.

At a caller Idea Exchange league with The Indian Express, Delhi CM Atishi said that a batch of the Delhi government’s policies “are cautiously crafted successful ways to springiness benefits to the radical who request it the most”. “We proudly accidental we springiness retired revdis and we volition support giving them,” she said.

Women arsenic halfway base

The AAP’s entreaty among women voters is not new. In the 2020 Delhi Assembly elections, women played a pivotal relation successful securing the party’s landslide victory. According to a Lokniti-CSDS survey from the time, women were 11 percent points much apt to ballot for the AAP than men. The AAP besides had a 25 percent constituent pb implicit the BJP among women voters.

And now, with its currency transportation scheme, the AAP believes women volition again play a pivotal relation successful however it performs successful the coming polls.

A elder AAP person said the enactment addressed the regular concerns of women.

“Not conscionable escaped autobus rides, but acquisition and h2o proviso person besides helped america successful establishing our basal among women. Women are profoundly invested successful their children’s education, and we person established (senior AAP leader) Manish Sisodia arsenic the begetter of Delhi’s acquisition revolution,” the AAP person said.

The person besides said that successful unauthorized colonies, wherever women erstwhile carried earthen pots and buckets to cod water, the AAP has been capable to supply pat h2o astatine home.

Another enactment person said that the predetermination result successful Maharashtra and Jharkhand “reaffirms what the enactment has known for a decennary present regarding the pistillate vote”.

“Schemes that springiness bureau to women volition ever beryllium a hit. We are hoping to thrust the connection that lone the AAP truly thinks astir empowering women beyond platitudes. In the coming weeks, dedicated outreach campaigns for women volition beryllium launched,” the person said.