Key Points
Women voters outnumber their male peers in at least 18 of the 230 assembly constituencies in MP, as per an estimate..
These areas include the tribal-dominated Balaghat, Mandla, Dindori, Alirajpur and Jhabua districts.IANSShivraj.
The Madhya Pradesh government on Saturday transferred Rs 1,000 each to the accounts of 1.25 crore women in the state as it rolled out the 'Ladli Behna Yojana', a scheme billed as a game-changer by the BJP in the poll-bound state..
With the Ladli Behna scheme, the BJP government in MP would be able to reach out to about half of the 2.6 crore women voters in the state...
The roll-out of the scheme comes ahead of Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra kickstarting her party's campaign with a rally in Jabalpur on Monday.. Congress leaders claimed Gandhi had announced Rs 1,500 to eligible women under the 'Nari Samman Nidhi' in the run-up to the Himachal Pradesh Assembly polls in December 2022 and that Chouhan had copied the move for his 'Ladli Behna Yojana'...
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