LUCKNOW Setting the stage for a high-stakes welfare battle ahead of the 2027 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday announced that the BJP government will soon roll out a special financial package aimed at making women economically self-reliant.
Party president Akhilesh Yadav ji has announced ₹ 40,000 every year for women under the Stree Samman Samriddhi Yojana, with an assurance that this amount will be increased annually.”
Reacting to Adityanath’s statement, SP national spokesperson Abbas Haider said: “The Samajwadi Party has already placed a concrete commitment before the people of UP.
The Congress era, he alleged, was known for scams like coal scam and 2G scam. People, especially women, feared venturing out of home fearing criminals. “During the Akhilesh Yadav government, we demonstrated our commitment through initiatives such as free laptops for students and Kanya Vidya Dhan for girls.
Hitting out at the Congress, he said securing an LPG connection was a big challenge prior to 2014. People, he alleged, had to pay a bribe from ₹ 25,000 to ₹ 50,000 to secure an LPG connection. Targeting the Samajwadi Party (SP), Adityanath said prior to 2017, there were riots, curfews and anarchy in the state.
Adityanath said his government had given dignity and security to women and now it was time to make them financially independent. “I assure women present here that our double-engine government is going to bring an attractive package for their economic self-reliance,” he said with an emphasis, while addressing a gathering of women here after distributing free LPG refills worth ₹ 1,500 crore to 1.89 crore beneficiaries under the Ujjawala scheme. “Our government is poised to bring a special relief package for three crore farmers adversely affected by two back-to-back spells of unseasonal rains in September and October,” said Adityanath. “The national launch of the Ujjawala scheme by PM Modi from UP’s Ballia in 2016 rid women of smoke and curbed bribery for LPG connections,” he said. “The Modi government made an effective attack on bribery and corruption, winning people’s trust and that also paved way for the BJP coming to power in UP in 2017,” he said. And this is the reason why there is festivity all around in markets,” he said. These were not merely announcements; they were implemented and benefited young people across UP,” said Haidar.
“Today, nobody dares touch a woman or extort a trader fearing consequences. He said today everybody was getting benefit of government’s welfare schemes without any discrimination and this, he said, was true good governance.
